| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | April 04, 1975 |
| Time: | 1630 |
| Location: | Saigon, South Vietnam |
| Operator: | Military - U.S. Air Force |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Saigon - Clark - Los Angeles |
| AC Type: | Lockheed C-5A Galaxy |
| Registration: | 68-218 |
| cn / ln: | 0021 |
| Aboard: | 330 (passengers:314 crew:16) |
| Fatalities: | 155 (passengers:150 crew:5) |
| 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 hydraulic systems resulting in a loss of pitch control. Worst single non-combat U.S. military aviation disaster. |
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