Popular Mechanics: Watch a Massive C-5M Super Galaxy Land Without Its Nose Gear
An extremely skillful landing.
A C-5M Super Galaxy landed without its nose gear at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland a few months ago, the first incident of its kind in years. Now, there's footage of the incident.
The C-5 was on a routine training mission over the Alamo City when it came in for a landing on March 15 with a crew of 11 on board.
The flight was a training mission that involved pilots, flight engineers and loadmasters. The crew discovered the nose landing gear wasn’t lowering while preparing to land at Lackland. That prompted them to declare an in-flight emergency.
No one was injured, but the failure of the plane’s nose gear came after an Air Force order to ground all C-5 cargo planes so a faulty ball screw assembly could be replaced in all 56 of them. The grounding, ordered Aug. 2, 2017, came after two C-5M cargo planes based at Dover AFB in Delaware had problems with their nose gear.
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WNU Editor: Yup .... extremely skillful landing.
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