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National 747 crash in Afghanistan
From AvHerald:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=vo51Be2jL8c |
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Wow, speechless after seeing that video
RIP to all onboard
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ex F-GISE Air France. If it is a load shift, that is a tragic mistake. Thoughts to all of the families of the crew.
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Well it appears to be a classic case of a massive stall, could see it going nose to the sky at the very start of the video.
About the only thing that would cause that would be a load shifting and ending up in the tail. And not talking about small things either, there would have had to be something very heavy and dense to throw out the CoG that far and to a point of non-recoverability. 5 military vehicles/trucks would do it. Also note that in general, Ops in places like Afghanistan will usually call for maximum climb on takeoff in order to gain altitude due to danger from small arms and RPGs on the ground. Of course this puts much more stress on the airframe and also the load, making a failure of the load securing equipment more likely. Doesn't seem to be that big a fireball either, doubt that it had a full tank of fuel onboard. |
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Just speechless .... very sad
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May not have accounted for tail fuel. Out of trim... Big time.
Had the gear been up, would have made a difference - all that extra drag. Very close to recovery... |
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Thomas.
I doubt it was set out of trim with tail tank fuel as it was going to Dubai. So no fuel in the tail tank. Gear would not have helped in this situation as putting the gear from down to up increases drag due to the doors opening. But the drag with the gear down may have helped with a nose down moment around the centre of pressure. I'll wait it see the the report. So for now it's a very tragic accident that no one has facts on. RIP guys/girls.
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Agreed, very sad. Makes you appreciated every clean departure and arrival you see. Amazing to see how quick the queen of the sky a 747-400 can be there one second and then vanish into a ball of flames so quickly. Just seems so surreal.
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I'm with Todd on this one. There could be a number of factors in this accident which nobody is aware of at this time. We all need to wait for the report.
What i will say is this. When i was first made aware of the accident early this morning and then saw the footage,i was left speechless. For me,it is one of the worst i can remember,mainly because of the footage of the crash itself.What a tragedy by all accounts. May God bless those who perished and all their families. R.I.P. Jim
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Factory B744F's don't come with a stab/tail tank, not sure if during the pax to freighter conversion they remove them out.
This was a 744BCF. |
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