C-17 rolls off runway at Kandahar Airfield

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C-17 rolls off runway at Kandahar Airfield
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Dec 30, 2008 16:24:46 EST

No crew members or passengers were injured when a C-17 ran off a runway after landing at Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan on Dec. 23, Air Force reports said.

The C-17, flown by the Air Force Reserve’s 315th Airlift Wing from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., left the runway at 6:20 a.m., reports said.

An accident investigation board will look into what led to the crash, indicating Air Force officials believe damage to the transport could top $1 million. The C-17, tail number 98-1191, is among the oldest of the transports.

There have been at least three other C-17 landing accidents in Afghanistan.

In August 2005 at Bagram Airfield, a pilot mistakenly thought the runway lights were 180 feet apart. In fact, the lights were 100 feet apart. When the jet came down, the right main landing gear was 10 feet off the runway, causing the plane to roll off the right side of the runway.


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