page_title: 2010 Alaska USAF C-17 crash
section_title: Crew
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 Alaska USAF C-17 crash / Crew
caption_attribution_description: English: Master Sgt. Brian Johnson (right) and 2nd Lt. Sherry Ferno, both of the 176th Security Forces Squadron, stand guard at the memorial display for Sitka 43 during the Arctic Thunder Air Show July 31, 2010, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Four aviators were killed when their C-17 Globemaster III, call sign Sitka 43, crashed July 28 as they practiced for the air show.
context_page_description: On 28 July 2010, a C-17 Globemaster III transport plane of the U.S. Air Force crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, while practicing for a flight display at the upcoming Arctic Thunder Air Show. All four crew members on board were killed. It was the first fatal accident of a C-17 aircraft.
  The subsequent investigation blamed pilot error for the low-altitude stall that led to the aircraft impacting the ground.
context_section_description: The four crew members on board all died; they were Majors Michael Freyholtz and Aaron Malone, pilots assigned to the Alaska Air National Guard's 249th Airlift Squadron; Captain Jeffrey Hill, a pilot assigned to Elmendorf's active-duty Air Force's 517th Airlift Squadron; and Senior Master Sergeant Thomas E. Cicardo, a loadmaster of the Alaska Air National Guard's 249th Airlift Squadron.
caption: Another C-17 served as a memorial to the lost airmen during the Arctic Thunder Air Show, three days after the crash.
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