Posted on 05/01/2013 11:09:18 AM PDT by lbryce
Shocking new footage has surfaced that appears to show a 747-400 cargo plane crashing at Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield. The crash reportedly left all seven Americans aboard the plane dead.
The Taliban took responsibility for the crash shortly after it occurred yesterday, but NATO told the Associated Press that these claims were false.
One army spokesperson said the crash occurred due to low altitude after takeoff. The plane, run by Florida-based National Airlines, a subsidiary of National Air Cargo, was reportedly carrying vehicles and other cargo and was bound for Dubai.
We've embedded the footage below, which appears to have been caught by a dash-cam. It seems the video was first uploaded to LiveLeak earlier this morning, and later re-uploaded to YouTube.
Warning: Some viewers may find the video upsetting:
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What’s to react? The camera was obviously dashboard mounted, hence stability. Some of us stay quiet when witnessing horrors, especially when alone. No help can be offered, just stay calm and get out of the area ASAP. I’d have reacted about the same.
You are correct....I am assuming that. The video has me so upset. I was just waiting to see people rushing to the crash site to see if anything could be done and didn’t see it.
Miracles happen all the time. But with your kind of attitude none can exist.
And yes, I’ve experienced several bona-fide miracles in my life. One an actual healing after laying on of hands.
Regarding your question, in your last comment, people respond differently to this sort of thing. It’s why a gunshot is followed by a woman’s scream and not a mans. ;-)
What an outrageous stupid statement, mindless to the core.....yes, the aircraft struck the ground, because it was too low....but why was it so low? because it stalled on take off....if this statement came from an officer of the Army, then we need help....
I was just heartbroken when I didn't see anyone running towards the disaster, but “fleeing” around it.
Every death and occurrence I see/read about, I always think IT has something to do with it.
5/8/13, the whistle blowers come out. I am expecting something very horrible to occur before that date.
Lord help us.
The burning fuel is thrown far further than a corpse would be.
Similar thing happened to a Sikorsky CH-53 departing DaNang with several pallets of C-Rats on a roller deck. For ease of unloading in a potentially hot LZ the crew chief had placed just one cargo strap behind the last pallet.
Sure enough, that strap let go and everything rolled aft, jamming up against the top half of the (lowered) cargo door. You can’t lower the ramp until the upper half is raised, so they could not lower the ramp to jettison cargo.
The ‘53 circled (barely) over DaNang Bay while the crew chief and door gunner were frantically cutting each pallet’s banding and throwing cases of ‘C’s out the ports.
Lots of ‘splainin’ to do once they landed. (not sure if that took place before or after a change of skivvies for all concerned)
Look closely you can see the landing gear deploy just before impact. Pilot was fighting it until the very end.
How are rescuers supposed to jump the security fence? Pretty obvious no one is surviving that.
The LI crash you reference was IIRC in a river, with a relatively soft landing and no fire. People could get close. Angle of crash was survivable. More of a hard landing in water than...
...a full load of jet fuel falling out of the sky, exploding with massive unsurvivable fireball on impact, and continuing flames which would kill anyone attempting approach thereto. Far more often than the miracles you address, people all too often get themselves killed rushing into obviously very dangerous situations.
Just because you’re self-admittedly stupid enough to race into a flaming mass of crashed burning jet fuel doesn’t condemn those of us who aren’t. The driver went around the site - quite possibly looking for survivors and collateral casualties; the scale of the site is big enough that he sure couldn’t walk around it fast enough to be useful. As for his silence, in every crash/emergency I’ve witnessed my reaction is a mumbled “oh shit” and calmly proceeding to assist as possible, which often involves staying in the vehicle to not become another casualty, getting out only when safe to do so and when assistance is objectively clear; the freakout you’re expecting comes about 15 minutes later when things calm down enough to warrant such a selfish emotion.
Fire Rescue: "What happened, sir?"
Yeager: "I don't know...I just got here myself".
Since you have responded to me with an a$$hole attitude, go eff yourself.
Appropriate!
How many 747s have ever crashed?
Just trying to make some sense out of this upside down world and I am making NO progress.
I am of the no /s camp :o)
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