Aftermath of C-17 Gear-Up Landing at Bagram Air Field

Editorial Staff

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

A damaged C-17 aircraft obstructed the runway at Bagram Air Field outside Kabul, Afghanistan.
The process of removing the crippled C-17 from the runway took more than two days.
The recovery operation was documented by the Department of Defense's Pentagon Channel with video, and the article provides a photo gallery of the damaged aircraft.

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According to the Department of Defense’s Pentagon Channel military information service, it took more than two days to remove a damaged C-17 from the runway at Bagram Air Field outside of Kabul, Afghanistan. The DOD has video of the recovery, and we have photos of the crippled aircraft.

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