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Afghanistan Plane Crash Video: Final Moments Of Doomed U.S. Cargo Plane Shown On Dash Camera (GRAPHIC)
Horrifying video has emerged showing the crash of a U.S. cargo plane in Afghanistan on Monday.
Scroll down for video - some readers may find this content disturbing.
The video, which appears to have been shot by a vehicle's dashboard camera, shows the National Airlines Boeing 747 taking off from the Bagram Airfield military base. According to NYC Aviation.com the aircrafts nose pitches up heavily, the plane appears to stall and then it falls to the ground.
The crash killed all seven people on board. All were Americans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/30/afghanistan-plane-crash-video_n_3186298.html
Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)It's a sickening feeling when you see a plane stall and stop in mid-air, especially something like a 747.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)It really wrenches your gut to witness such. This footage is truly amazing - to see this massive plane literally HANG THERE for a couple of seconds before yielding to gravity. Could be mechanical malfunction and possibly a piece of cargo came loose and shifted aft.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Could be a sudden power loss. Bird strike?
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)Question is what caused the stall - massive weightshift within the plane or something else? You can hear what sounds to be the engines revved to full power as the plane comes down, but it's too late at that point.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I was taught that if the plane stalls out, do not try to pull up, just point the nose down, gain air speed and then pull up.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)litlbilly
(2,227 posts)It almost looked like he was tail heavy. If your plane is nose heavy, much easier to deal with. With a tail heavy plane, almost impossible to control. I think they had to much weight in the back and the center of gravity was not where it should be. And as far as stalling an airplane, you can stall at any airspeed and any attitude, had that drilled into my head.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)AndyA
(16,993 posts)I saw a horrific car crash once, where people were killed. Took me a while to not shiver when I thought of it, and I still have low tolerance for careless, rude drivers who break the law, because I've seen first hand what can happen.
I guess I'm thankful that it was a cargo plane, and that there weren't more people on board, but that doesn't really matter to the families of those who died.
RIP.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)I see the stall and can feel it deep in my bones, then the subsequent getting blown around by the wind after losing control. Glad I don't carry jet fuel!
Robb
(39,665 posts)Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...wondering if a load shifted to the rear to throw the plane into such an orientation. Exceptionally disturbing. The person driving the car immediately knows something is wrong because you can see they slow down/stop almost as soon as the plane comes into view. Harrowing to be staring at such a huge aircraft, watch it wobble like that in the air, and know that not only are there people onboard who will likely die but that the aircraft may come down either on you or close enough to you that you're killed or injured as well.
Very grim.
PB
pa28
(6,145 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)I mean, was there a person behind that camera? I would
have expected something like a "holy crap" or at least
an audible gasp.. or is it being filmed by a robot?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Some people don't react verbally at everything, right away.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)The driver of the vehicle has a headset on and is listening to radio chatter and instructions. Probably why he shushed the dog.
The CCC
(463 posts)You can hear the dog, and a quiet sush to the dog. So there was audio. As to why, everyone reacts differently to shocking events.
sgsmith
(398 posts)Notice that the nose and main gear are still extended just prior to impact. Gear is usually retracted soon after takeoff in order to reduce drag on the airplane.
Too many things that could have gone wrong to make a simple guess.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Especially not if the pilots suspected a problem with the plane, and the possibility of aborting.
Sometimes you get to the point of no return and you just have to go for it, even if something is wrong, or you run out of airstrip.
Out of speed, out of altitude... out of options. Sucks.
MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)looks like maybe a downburst?
AAO
(3,300 posts)Maybe the date is wrong?
MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)Much like the way I treat my VCR
Quixote1818
(28,903 posts)Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)...used to another craft, for instance a Hercules, which had different climb characteristics. Unless, as I mentioned a little earlier upthread, a load shifted causing the strange nose up stall, it almost looks like the pilot thought there should be a lot more power there than there was.
PB