Bagram Airfield Crash

[DallasSleeper]

Video of 747 crashing on 4/29

[8mpg]

that thing literally fell out of the air.

[Pro88LX]

holy shit....what caused that? looks like it tried to climb too steep and stalled out?

[exlude]

Holy fuck, why were they trying to climb so steeply? How does that happen with modern technology?

[DallasSleeper]

It was a cargo, so I am thinking the load must have shifted

[likeitfast55]

Either elevator runaway, or cg(cargo) shift causing full nose up, stall,right wing loss of lift,nose drop, full aileron deflection,roll recovery too close to ground to recover from loss of altitude. Pancake crash.

Just my early guess. As a pilot with over 20k+ hours in transport category aircraft, to watch this makes me sick to my stomach. RIP

[68RR]

My guess would be that whatever cargo they were carrying wasn't properly secured and shifted at rotation. Put the plane in an aft c/g condition which it couldn't get out of..

[Strychnine]

Holy fuck, why were they trying to climb so steeply? How does that happen with modern technology?

Several observers on the ground reported the National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 had just lifted off and was climbing through approximately 1200 feet when it's nose sharply rose, the aircraft appeared to have stalled and came down erupting in a blaze.

According to a listener on frequency the crew reported the aircraft stalled due to a possible load shift.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/afghanistan-defence/249053-crash-national-air-cargo-b744-bagram-apr-29th-2013-lost-height-shor.html

And WTF was that bus driver thinking still driving forward as it was VERY obviously going to crash?!

[SS Junk]

Something this individual is used to seeing? Absolutely no reaction whatsoever.

[1carcrazyguy]

Looks like it had a glide factor of 0.

[likeitfast55]

Looks like it had a glide factor of 0.

Do you have any idea how much a fully loaded 74-400 weighs? 1200' is a RCH in altitude----glide--- not happening!
Some freighters can weigh up to 970,000 lbs. fully loaded.


RCH- term used by many in aviation to denote the smallest increment known to man. Red cunt hair.

[exlude]

Some heads are going to roll. I went through the aircraft prep and loadmaster shit there and it seemed like a pretty good program/process (for the little I know about air cargo)

[pHILSANITY07]

Damn, that's hard to watch

[Scott Mc]

Jesus, horrible accident. RIP

[UserX]

That's terrible