[lbryce]

I'm watching the plane on its trajectory on takeoff and all of a sudden the 747 just swerves left rotating at a 90 degree angle and just hits the ground. Very strange to watch.

[bubbacluck]

I’m pretty sure this happened a year ago. I remember watching the video in amazement. Really spooked me.

[Jack Hydrazine]

At the time of the crash the airline had been operating between Camp Bastion and Dubai for a month.[1] The airline said that the accident aircraft had originated in Camp Bastion,[5] and then refueled at Bagram.[6] The aircraft had taken off from Bagram’s runway 03 at 15:30 local time (11:00 UTC) and was climbing through 1,200 feet (370 m) when its nose rose sharply. According to an unconfirmed claim, a crew member was heard on VHF air-band radio reporting that some of the load of five heavy military vehicles in the cargo hold had shifted; the aircraft then stalled and crashed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_102

[dr_lew]

To me it looks like it stalled (aerodynamically,) at which point it was no longer flying.

[Bobalu]

OMG! That’s awful :-(

The 747 is a very safe aircraft.... must have been some kind of cargo shifting around or something similar. It almost looks like it turned from an aircraft into a non aerodynamic blob that just fell from the sky.

[Secret Agent Man]

didn’t they say a load shift caused this?

[tcrlaf]

The aircraft was owned by National Air Cargo, out of Orlando.
The seven crew that died were all American Citizens.

[Secret Agent Man]

if you look at it as it climbs its turning up and to the right, and i would guess the load shifted to the tail which kept the nose up.

[Osage Orange]

This was posted a long ago..................

[logi_cal869]

Comments here are pertinent for those interested

http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:7a78f54e-b3dd-4fa6-ae6e-dff2ffd7bdbb&plckPostId=Blog%3a7a78f54e-b3dd-4fa6-ae6e-dff2ffd7bdbbPost%3a43b6b6a8-2c8f-4e02-b6f0-e2603c2063f1

[Seizethecarp]

I put up an FR thread about this:

“Was the Bagram 747 Crash a Terrorist Drone/UAV Attack in the Runway Kill Zone (RKZ)?”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3014940/posts

The crash appears conclusively to have been caused by load shift, but terrorists could achieve the same result by disabling more than one heavy aircraft turbine in a “runway kill zone” as explained on my blog:

http://runwaykillzone.com/