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DOVER, Del. - A C-5 cargo plane with 17 people aboard crashed near the Dover Air Force Base Monday morning, according to a state public safety official.
There is no word on fatalities but Department of Public Safety assistant director Allen Metheny said some injuries have been reported. Some patients are being taken to a local hospital and others were being taken to a trauma center.
It's not clear if the plane was landing or taking off when it crashed.
An Associated Press correspondent at the scene says the cockpit separated from the rest of the fuselage. The cockpit is facing west and the larger piece of fuselage with the wing facing northeast. He says there is no sign of a tail assembly.
He observed ambulances leaving the scene, south of the base near Bayside Drive and Kitts-Hummock Road.
The C-5 is one of the Air Force's largest cargo planes and is designed to carry very heavy cargo loads on trans-continental deployments.
http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/04/03/359558.html&cvqh=itn_cargo
There is no word on fatalities but Department of Public Safety assistant director Allen Metheny said some injuries have been reported. Some patients are being taken to a local hospital and others were being taken to a trauma center.
It's not clear if the plane was landing or taking off when it crashed.
An Associated Press correspondent at the scene says the cockpit separated from the rest of the fuselage. The cockpit is facing west and the larger piece of fuselage with the wing facing northeast. He says there is no sign of a tail assembly.
He observed ambulances leaving the scene, south of the base near Bayside Drive and Kitts-Hummock Road.
The C-5 is one of the Air Force's largest cargo planes and is designed to carry very heavy cargo loads on trans-continental deployments.
http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/04/03/359558.html&cvqh=itn_cargo
