747 Bagram airfield crash

[porky_pig]

No survivors

 

[marcos]

That was a weird crash.

[Pilotasso]

Looks like a classic stall, what was the pilot doing? yikes! :(

[HOKUM52]

it was carring military vehicles and apparently they shifted towards the rear on takeoff

[IvanK]

A stall but we need to discover what caused the Pitch up in the first place. Shifting load is a suspect ...If that is the case there is not a lot the pilots could have done about ... get outside the c of g range and thats it its all over... but like all these events not worth presuming to much until the investigation is complete.

[badger66]

it was carring military vehicles and apparently they shifted towards the rear on takeoff

 

How do you apparently have access to that info ..... nothing in the wreckage would determine that ?

[Cake]

The crew apparently reported a load shift on the radio.

[Cake]

From Aviation Herald:

 

"Several observers on the ground reported the National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 had just lifted off and was climbing through approximately 1200 feet when it's nose sharply rose, the aircraft appeared to have stalled and came down erupting in a blaze... According to a listener on frequency the crew reported the aircraft stalled due to a possible load shift."

[bradleyjs]

I saw a piece on the news saying they were carrying some IFVs (or something similar) to Dubai and they were guessing that they broke free of their hold-down chains and shifted rearward, thus causing the CG shift

[Darkwolf]

I heard about Sport Cars.....

 

 

.... Medias....

[basset]

The author of this article believes what caused the accident was a CG shift and goes into some great detail explaining why.

 

http://www.nycaviation.com/2013/05/national-air-flight-102-a-preliminary-report/#.UYRSK7Uqams

[TimeKilla]

RIP crew.