Jabpilot From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 423 posts, RR: 1 Posted (12 years 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1328 times:
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport made a successful emergency landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Wednesday. The C-5, which is one of the largest aircraft in the world, was unable to extend its nose landing gear. The crew brought it down on Rogers Dry Lake, a lake bed on the base. No injuries were sustained by the eight crew members and nine passengers aboard. One Air Force official called it a "picture-perfect landing." The C-5 is based at Travis Air Force Base in California. A board will be formed to determine the cause of the malfunction.
CNN also showed the clip of the emergency landing Thursday morning.
TurboTristar From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (12 years 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1149 times:
I saw the clip of the landing on the 6:00 A.M. news. The crew did perform a superb landing. I have to say that the C-5 looked very impressive rolling on all of its back wheels for those seconds until the nose hit the sand
Delta777-XXX From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1017 posts, RR: 8 Reply 10, posted (12 years 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1124 times:
This is not a first for the C-5. I remember seeing a video of one landing with the nose gear up.
No wait, it may have been a book. I think it was a video though.
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