[American Constitutionalist]

Would bird ingestion do this ?
A large foreign object into the engines ?

[holden]

FOD from the runway (ala Concorde) or bird ingestion, too, both seem possibilities.

I understand from one of the posters above that a steeper-than-usual climbout phase was called for at Bagram, presumably because of the potentially of ground-to-air fire. What an awful exacerbation to all these potential things-on-the-hairy-edge for pilots to avoid!

It could also have been that load shifted after take-off due to insecure mechanisms or straps.

HF

[central_va]

Would bird ingestion do this ? A large foreign object into the engines ?

Not likely. Departure stalls are not that hard to recover from, something went way wrong. Looks like the flaps were extended, Some flaps are necessary on take off but that looked like a lot.