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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The 747 appears to be a favorite of terrorists.
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Interestingly, the dashcam say 2013/02/01. Curious...
There's not a lot of audio, but this is where he says it.
People are lazy. Ideally, a dash cam would be equipped with GPS and annotate the video with the exact time and location. But most are not.
Dash cams are very popular in Russia, because of how accidents are adjudicated there and the prevalence of insurance fraud. That's why video of the Chelyabinsk meteor was so plentiful.
“Just trying to make some sense out of this upside down world and I am making NO progress.”
Because you’re berating people for not running into certain death.
Anything is possible, but I question the ‘load-shift’ theory; any AF loadmaster will tell you it’s almost impossible (assuming the loaders were USAF).
I’ve posted elsewhere my suspicion: That the crash was a result of a restrictive flight envelope imposed on outgoing aircraft as a result of a security situation they can’t control. My boy was there 2+ years; time for the survivors to come home...you can’t change 2000 years of culture/history (but progressives will try).
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