Gen. Michael Moseley, Air Force Chief of Staff, confirmed that the C-5 transport aircraft that crashed near Dover AFB, Del., Monday, shortly after going airborne, experienced an engine problem—prompting the crew to bring the giant airlifter back around to Dover and was within a “reasonable distance” of the runway before it crashed. Queried on Tuesday during a Capitol Hill seminar, Moseley noted that the C-5 was not an older A model but rather a B model that already had undergone Avionics Modernization Program improvements. He did not think that age would be a factor. However, he said, “There are some things we have to go look at, and some things we have to go ask some folks.”
The Pentagon agency charged with building and operating U.S. spy satellites recently declassified some details about a Cold War-era surveillance program called Jumpseat—a revelation it says sheds light on the importance of satellite imaging technology and how it has advanced in the decades since.
