[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

[American Constitutionalist]

One of the best commercial airliners to do that manuver was the 727.
It could take off on short run ways and even dirt run ways.