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National Air Cargo B744 at Bagram on Apr 29th 2013, lost height shortly after takeoff
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High performance/steep angle departures are common practice out of SAM threat fields like Baghram, but Air Force personnel witnesses on the ground who should presumably have a clue what they are watching report that this plane pitched up nearly vertical shortly after Takeoff, wallowed around and stalled. The running theory is Load Shift or improper loading causing out of limit CG.
See here for possible example:
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They've now adjusted the death toll to 7, from the initial reports of 8. Four flight crew, two mechanics, and a load master. RIP
Originally posted by TeeVee View Postit's a boeing problem. a bus would never have allowed the humans to screw up like that and would've automatically adjusted all flight parameters to account for any and all cargo shifting.
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Man that video is scary stuff. Here's a youtube copy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfVsql38oc
Looks like a CG shift for sure
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i feel like a dweeb. i hadn't read the article and thought it had just dropped in altitude. had no idea it crashed.
now, tell me this, even if the guy driving what may be a humvee and was shooting the video is a soldier/marine/whatever, how could he not have said holy shit! or something? anything?
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Originally posted by TeeVee View Posti feel like a dweeb. i hadn't read the article and thought it had just dropped in altitude. had no idea it crashed.
now, tell me this, even if the guy driving what may be a humvee and was shooting the video is a soldier/marine/whatever, how could he not have said holy shit! or something? anything?
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Originally posted by TeeVee View Posti feel like a dweeb. i hadn't read the article and thought it had just dropped in altitude. had no idea it crashed.
now, tell me this, even if the guy driving what may be a humvee and was shooting the video is a soldier/marine/whatever, how could he not have said holy shit! or something? anything?
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