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title: "A C-5M Super Galaxy Made A Daring Landing With Its Nose Gear Up At Travis Air Force Base"
description: "A C-5M Super Galaxy strategic transport aircraft landed with its nose landing gear up at Travis Air Force Base ini California on Thursday evening, an Air Force spokesman told Task & Purpose."
date: "2019-02-01"
modified: "2019-02-01"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/c5-emergency-landing-nose-gear/"
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  - "News"
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  - "United States"
---

# A C-5M Super Galaxy Made A Daring Landing With Its Nose Gear Up At Travis Air Force Base

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A C-5M Super Galaxy strategic transport aircraft landed with its nose landing gear up at Travis Air Force Base ini California on Thursday evening, an Air Force spokesman told Task & Purpose.

- The aircraft was returning from a contingency mission to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility when it made the emergency landing, 60th Air Mobility Wing public affairs chief Capt. Lyndsey Horn told Task & Purpose in a statement.
- None of the 11 crew members aboard, all assigned to the 349th Air Mobility Wing, were injured in the incident. The cause of the crash is currently under investigation.
- This is the third time since mid-2017 that a C-5M was forced to land with its nose gear up: A similar incident [occurred](<https://theaviationist.com/2018/08/14/watch-a-c-5m-super-galaxy-land-at-joint-base-san-antonio-with-no-nosewheel/>) in March 2018 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.
- Before that, another C-5M made a [similar landing](<https://theaviationist.com/2017/05/23/u-s-air-force-c-5-galaxy-performs-nose-gear-up-landing-at-rota-air-base-in-spain/>) at Rota Air Base in Spain in May 2017.
- With a wingspan of 222 feet, the C-5M is the largest aircraft in the Air Force's inventory.

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Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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