C-17s have survived missile attacks in Iraq and pilot mishaps in Aghanistan without casualty in recent years, including a surface-to-air hit in Baghdad in 2003 and a 2009 incident at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan where a C-17 landed on its belly – with its landing gears disabled.

A C-17A assigned to the service’s 3rd Wing at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska crashed on the base at 18:14 local time yesterday while “on a local training mission”, the service confirms.

Callers to the Olney Police Department said they saw a low-flying plane, and a spokesman for Sheppard AFB initially reported a crash, but then retracted the report.

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