The aircraft was repaired and returned to service.[182]

On 6 August 2005, a U.S. Air Force C-17 (AF Serial No. 01-0196) ran off the runway at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan while attempting to land, destroying the aircraft's nose and main landing gear.[183] It took two months to make the aircraft flightworthy, the aircraft was flown to Boeing's Long Beach facility by a test pilot, as the temporary repairs imposed performance limitations.[184] In October 2006, the aircraft returned to service after receiving repairs.

On 30 January 2009, a U.S. Air Force C-17 (AF Serial No. 96-0002 – "Spirit of the Air Force") made a gear-up landing at Bagram Air Base.[185][186] The C-17 was ferried from Bagram AB, making several stops along the way, to Boeing's Long Beach plant for extensiveOpen this photo in gallery Jill Promoli, seen here on April 30, 2019, with her son Thomas, 4, and daughter Isla, 8, and a photograph of Thomas's twin, Jude, in the family's living room in Mississauga. Galit Rodan

A Canadian who became a vaccination advocate after the death of her son says she has been subjected to hundreds of online attacks in recent days from an anti-vaccination Facebook group, highlighting what she says is the social-media giant’s failure to curb false and dangerous information about immunization.

Jill Promoli started the advocacy group For Jude, For Everyone after her two-year-old son Jude died as a result of the flu in 2016. Last week, Ms. Promoli created a post on the group’s Facebook page to mark the start of National Immunization Awareness