preserve evidence for the Air Force investigation
This appears to be the first fatal crash
coner involving a C-17, which Boeing bills as the most advanced air cargo plane in the world.
Brig. Gen. Chuck Foster, commander of the Guard's 176th Wing, said he knew of no other. Elmendorf officials were trying to confirm that.
The four-engine jet crashed in what witnesses described as a huge ball of flame. One said it looked like a nuclear explosion.
Emergency crews worked all night Wednesday to secure the crash site and preserve evidence for the Air Force investigation, said Col. Jack McMullen, 3rd Wing commander, at a briefing outside Elmendorf's Boniface Parkway gate on Thursday.
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