Posted on 04/30/2013 3:59:40 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
KABUL, Afghanistan — A civilian cargo plane owned by an American company crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of the Afghan capital, soon after takeoff on Monday, killing all seven people aboard, the US-led military coalition said.
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For those who chose not to look, its basically a 747 with Zero Airspeed, nose up at 80 degrees... whisch is not going to end well 1200 feet off the ground.
B747 with landing gear still down on takeoff pitches up to 45 or more degrees then stalls and rolls off to 90 degrees of bank before crash. Likely a cargo shift on rotation for takeoff.
Horrible.
Prayers for the families.
Will be used as an excuse to leave even more military hardware behind
That was my immediate impression watching this, as well. Something big shifted, maybe cut some hydraulic lines, and a radical nose-up attitude resulted and a stall was the understandable outcome.
MRAP’s aren’t light and if just one rolled back into the tail on takeoff, that is it.
Since the Cargo was 5 mine resitant vehicles, it should be easy for the FAA to determine where they were during the crash and if they shifted. It like 5 “Black Boxes” on board.
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On the other hand, if it were rear-heavy, it wouldn’t have gone nose-down after the stall, which it did do. Had it just 10,000 feet more altitude, or maybe less, it could have pulled out of the stall and kept flying.
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