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More photos, little information from C-17 crash at Bagram

This a follow up on this incident… My earlier article regarding a string of C-17 mishaps and runway overshoots at Bagram has drawn quite a bit of traffic lately, and no small number of comments criticizing my attempt at analysis.  While looking around for a...

Another C-17 incident at Bagram

Last week a US Air Force C-17 transport plane (tail #96-0002) made a dazzling nighttime “wheels up” belly landing at Bagram Air Base in Aghanistan sending sparks and flames higher than the tailplane (which on the C-17 is five stories high).  The crash led...