Air Crash Investigation
Operation Babylift (1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Directed by Tim WolochatiukTV-14
S7 • E5 Dec 1, 2009 50m7.7
Near the close of the Vietnam War, the United States launched Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from war torn Vietnam. On April 4th 1975, the first Babylift flight ended in tragedy when a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy carrying 314 passengers crashed during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam killing 138.
