Pilot, co-pilot pinned during C-5 crashUpdate 10:47 am - The News Journal - Delaware Online
DOVER -- The pilot and co-pilot of a C-5 cargo plane were pinned in their seats when the plane crashed today, just south of Dover Air Force Base, according to an Air Force officer who had friends on the plane.
Seventeen people were aboard, and three were flown by helicopter to Christiana Hospital in Stanton, two with possible spinal injuries, the officer said. A Christiana Hospital spokesperson referred all questions to the Air Force. Fourteen people from the C-5 were taken to Kent General Hospital with minor injuries, one with a broken leg.
At 9:30 a.m., at least four Air Force personnel wearing patients’ smocks at Kent General could be seen in a conference room filling out forms and being questioned by Air Force officers in camouflage fatigues. The personnel in the smocks appeared to be uninjured and were sipping coffee and munching donuts. Hospital spokesperson Pam Marecki was not immediately available for comment. According to Ellen Shockley of Bayhealth, which operates Kent General, all 14 “patients are being evaluated and treated now. Many patients will soon be discharged and a few will likely be admitted to the hospital.”
CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Air Force C-5 cargo jet carrying 17 people crashed and broke into pieces Monday while trying to make an emergency landing near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Air Force and FAA officials said. No one was killed, but several aboard were injured, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Melissa Phillips, a spokeswoman for the base, told The Associated Press.
Pentagon sources told CNN the aircraft "declared an in-flight emergency for a No. 2 engine flameout."