Airplane Crash - Saigon, Vietnam 04/04/1975
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Saigon, Vietnam
| Date | 04/04/1975 |
| Time | 16:30 |
| Location | Saigon, Vietnam |
| Operator | Military - U.S. Air Force |
| Route | Tan Son AFB - Clark AFB |
| Type | Lockheed C-5A Galaxy |
| Registration | 68-218 |
| Cn/In | 0021 |
| Aboard | 330 |
| Fatalities | 155 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | The aircraft reported it was returning to Tan Son Nhut Airbase 15 minutes after taking off. The aircraft was not able to make the airport and crashed landed into a rice paddy, 1.5 miles from the airport. The flight was evacuating 243 Vietnamese orphans. Pressure failure due to a faulty rear loading ramp caused decompression which led to severed rudder and elevator cables and loss of two hydraulisystems resulting in a loss of pitch control. Worst single non-combat U.S. military aviation disaster. |
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