article_snippet.sent: An orphan who survived a horrific plane crash that claimed the lives of nearly 80 babies and children 40 years ago  has made an emotional return to the scene of one of the worst humanitarian disasters of Vietnam War.
article_snippet.sent: when the first flight of Operation Babylift – an evacuation of vulnerable Vietnamese orphans and children before the Fall of Saigon – crashed minutes after take-off.
article_snippet.sent: Now 41, Landon has visited the crash scene and is thought to be the first child survivor to return to the countryside on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City where the C-5 military cargo plane crashed and broke up killing 78 children and 50 adults on April 4, 1975.
article_snippet.sent: Landon and Lorie Carnie were thought to have died when the first flight of Operation Babylift – an evacuation of Vietnamese orphans and children before the Fall of Saigon – crashed minutes after take-off .
article_snippet.sent: The crew wrestled to bring the plane under control and were returning to Tan Song Nhut air base in Saigon when the plane crashed and broke into four blazing pieces short of the runway.
article_snippet.sent: Catastrophic: U.S. military officials sift through the wreckage of the U.S. C5A cargo plane that crashed shortly after take off, killing 78 children and 50 adults in one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the Vietnam War .
highlights_snippet.sent: Landon and Lorie Carnie were on first flight of Operation Babylift in 1975 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Plane crashed in one of the worst humanitarian disasters of Vietnam War .
  