Massive explosion as civilian airliner crashes in Afghanistan
 

Video: Watch as airliner in Afghanistan crashes near airport | canada.com

allah akbar!

in all seriousness though, I can relate, i've done that many times in every flight simulator. lol!!!!

i wonder what happened, unbalanced aircraft?

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Probably load shift to the rear of the plane, or improper loading of heavier goods in the tail section.

Holy crap, it was so eerie to see such a massive plane hang in the air momentarily before coming down. :eek:

OR maybe the pilot was like:

"CHECK THIS OUT GUYS!!!"

then moments later, "fuck."


yeah the load probably was not balanced... or not strapped down properly. maybe it slid to the back and... totally fucked the weight up.

I'm no pilot, but its takeoff angle seemed INCREDIBLY steep. Could a stall under such heavy load be the simple culprit?

This. An airliner does not have the thrust to sustain such a high Angle of Attack... I wonder how the hell that nose-up attitude happened?

^ steep due to obvious reason (Afghanistan) security,, seems like engine just stalled.. alot of airports need planes to make steep approach and take off, but in this case...looks steep...could be just the angle of recording..

Wow, looks like the plane had too much much weight, stalled and than crashed.

Cargo must've become loose and shifted all the weight to the back suddenly. Take-offs are the most stressful on the plane.

That video, holy fuck :fulloffuck:

Date stamp says 2013/02/01:confused:

Yes, because date stamps on cheap dashcams are always the most accurate.

It was a National Air Cargo plane heading from Afghanistan to Dubai...

Definitely seems like a cargo shift, its happened before.
Apparently the pilot reported a stall and as you can see tried compensating for the yaw and looks like he did a decent job of getting the wings level and nose down but they were way too low to ever make a recovery.
Thats a very haunting video to watch.

More info can be found here:

Crash: National Air Cargo B744 at Bagram on Apr 29th 2013, lost height shortly after takeoff

Holy FUCK!

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Lol no. Most stressful on the engine, sorta.

Are you kidding me? He held the stall until he got a wing drop, that's pretty impressive considering the stick shaker comes on so early in that plane.

As for the steep take off angle, ya it's stupid steep. The only time that a 747 can "do" that is if it's empty. Talking to my sim instructor this semester and Cathay Pacific would sometimes be doing like 500fpm climbs out of Vancouver on a hot day with a full load of passengers.

What i'm thinking is that the cargo shifted so bad that no amount of elevator down could overcome the rearward cog

damn that was scary to watch

thought explosion would be bigger for such a large plane

Holy shit. National is one of our clients and one of our sales guys told me about this today. I had no idea there was a video

Push down, trim down, pull up trim up

If I was flying the plane. I would've broken the trim switch.

Rip

Wowwowowow.

Sad to just see 7 lives vaporize like that.

HOLYFUCK


rip..

at least they died instantly. RIP.

In this case, I could imagine the pilots yell, ENGINEER MORE POWER! BUT NO RESERVE POWER available :(

That was crazy.

RIP

Too low terrain, bwoop bwoop

Holy shit. Rip
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