C-17 Suffers Its First Fatal Accident

Credit: AP/Wide World
Smoke rises from the wreckage of a crashed C-17 Globemaster III near the runway at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. The accident killed three Alaska Air National Guardsmen and one active-duty crewman and occurred while the crew was practicing low-altitude maneuvers for an air show scheduled for this past...

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