ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327589
| Date: | Sunday 31 July 1983 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed C-5A Galaxy |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 70-0446 |
| MSN: | 500-0060 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Shemya AFB, AK (SYA) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
| Shemya AFB, AK (SYA/PASY) |
Crashed on landing at Shemya, Alaska. The C-5 approached below the glide slope, hit an embankment short of the runway and bounced back into the air before coming to rest on the runway. Structural damage was extensive. The airplane keel and two structural mainframes were broken, and the two aft main landing gear bogies were sheared from the airplane. There were no fatalities.
A joint USAF/Lockheed team made repairs enabling a one-time ferry flight from Shemya to the Lockheed plant in Marietta, Georgia. In addition to the structural repairs, the airplane also received an improved landing gear system (common to the then-new C-5B), wing modification, and a color weather radar upgrade. The airplane was returned to service, and was transferred to the Texas Air National Guard.
Sources:
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy on Wikipedia
Location
Images:
photo (c) Kboughner; Shemya AFB, AK (SYA/PASY); 1970; (publicdomain)
photo (c) Kboughner; Shemya AFB, AK (SYA/PASY); 1970; (publicdomain)
photo (c) Paul A. Lawrence; Shemya AFB, AK (SYA/PASY); 1970
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