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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/03/c5.crash/index.html
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123018410

Salute Dutchy
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Just saw a news report on tv from CNN that the pilot reported that he had a flameout on the #2 engine and was RTB to make an emergency landing.

"GLAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE AND HAVE BEEN PROUD TO HAVE SERVERED"

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????

Fox news web site has a 5 minute clip about the crash.

"GLAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE AND HAVE BEEN PROUD TO HAVE SERVERED"

I'm sure Goob has a nice spot for it now.

You might be a "Bulldog" if: You bend over and grab your ankles when you hear: "EXERCISE, EXERCISE, EXERCISE!"

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Yikes, not a lot of thrust margin on FRED if you loose one engine and are loaded up! Hard to tell how much she was haulin.

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The good news is there were no casulties.

Fender

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George Bernard Shaw

it just had a #2 engine flame out its still good its still good!<img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

Just a little broken its still good, its still good! <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

“Why Why Why was I programmed to feel pain!?”

Here are some photo's from CNN http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0604/ ... clude.html

And here from af.mil
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123018520

Unbelievble that almost everybody is unhurt. That's good.

Salute Dutchy
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Some really lucky boys on that bird. From the pics I've seen, it looks like they over shot the runway on their landing. Thank God all of them made it out alive. Last time one of these crashed, it took 13 of the crew with it.

"Slow is Fast - Fast is Slow"

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the reason it caused no deaths or injuries, was due to the planes size!

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“Why Why Why was I programmed to feel pain!?”

US Automotive crashtests clearly show that a vehicle with a greater mass results in less injuries to the occupants for any given speed.

I assume that's what he's referring to. Since there was no fire in this instance, he's probably on to something...maybe.

LOL.

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I'll go with intact fuel cells = no fire = survivability. Thinking mass has little to do with it.

OC

Some days it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints

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Fender

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

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the reason it caused no deaths or injuries, was due to the planes size!

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“Why Why Why was I programmed to feel pain!?”



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Uhm...do you know anything about ACFT? I'm thinking not....

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I'm thinkin <u>HE</u> thinks C-5 is so big it creats it's own gravitational field and thus cushions it's occupants in an impact. Either that or he's all funky-doodle, I'm betting on the funky-doodle part <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

A 45 has a muzzle.
A 9mm has a bullet vent.

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The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

" I'll go with intact fuel cells = no fire = survivability. Thinking mass has little to do with it."

I'm no physicist, but that is apperently a truism(more mass=less injuries) with automobles.

Hence SUVs being safer in crashes(unless they roll, which is an unrelated issue)

There is a lot of NHTSA data about the subject on the net if anyone wants to spend the time to look into it.
Here's a snippet: http://www.piercelaw.edu/Risk/Vol3/spring/Graham.htm

"One of the reasons for this reversal was growing recognition of the findings of the first peer-reviewed study of CAFE and safety, which estimated that 1989 models are 500 pounds lighter than they would have been without CAFE rules, resulting in a 14 to 27% elevation in the occupant fatality rate in these vehicles."

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<b>"One post, One Kill".</b>

Old "FRED" might have its draw backs keeping her in the air, but just by seeing the Cargo that is there when "He" hit that might of just saved the aircraft breaking FRED at that Joint.
FRED is a Tough SOB
Plus on take-off if they still have those rules the LoadMasters are up stairs out of the Cargo area the PAX are on the same level as the Flt Crew so everyone was away from the area of breakage.

That FLT Crew did an "OUTSTANDING JOB" bringing him in and I think we'll find out that the crew put her down there in case it did
"Crash and Burn" because Dover is a "MAJOR" staging point.

No matter what "A crash you can walk away from is a "GOOD FLIGHT"

Goose

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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(1706 - 1790)

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Well said Goose.

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<b>"One post, One Kill".</b>

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" I'll go with intact fuel cells = no fire = survivability. Thinking mass has little to do with it."

I'm no physicist, but that is apperently a truism(more mass=less injuries) with automobles.

Hence SUVs being safer in crashes(unless they roll, which is an unrelated issue)

There is a lot of NHTSA data about the subject on the net if anyone wants to spend the time to look into it.
Here's a snippet: http://www.piercelaw.edu/Risk/Vol3/spring/Graham.htm

"One of the reasons for this reversal was growing recognition of the findings of the first peer-reviewed study of CAFE and safety, which estimated that 1989 models are 500 pounds lighter than they would have been without CAFE rules, resulting in a 14 to 27% elevation in the occupant fatality rate in these vehicles."

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<b>"One post, One Kill".</b>

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Snipe...you know I respect your opinion, but compairing an automobile crash to an aicraft crash is like apples and oranges....

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I am not trying to marry the CAFE/NHTSA data to airplane crashes, im just pointing out that there is SOME data to suggest that Finkle wasnt as nuts as many first thought.

I have no idea if it applies to planes as it does to motor vehicles.

In all honesty the idea to me seems kind of counter-intuitive. At a like velocity a heavier object will release more KE at impact than a lighter one.

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<b>"One post, One Kill".</b>

Maybe something like this, a heavier object would loose it's KE at a more gradual rate, thereby producing lesser G loads on ( in this case ) the occupants.

A 45 has a muzzle.
A 9mm has a bullet vent.

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Possibly. Another possibility is that a heavier object tends to be a more sturdily constructed object.

I really don't know, i've never really read up on the phenomenon. Of course as Prkiii pointed out it could in reality be totally irrelevant to aircraft.

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The main reason I feel it wouldn't be the same is you not only have the force of the impact, but you have gravity pulling down on the aircraft as well as it's forward inertia......


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