Crazy footage of a 747 cargo plane crashing after takeoff (Bagram, Afghanistan)

• SportsAndLady

  

  All 7 people on board died on impact.
  
  [video=youtube;icfVsql38oc][/video]
• Mohican00

  

  freight shift, supposedly.
  
  Odd how something so minor can fuck some shit up
• Pick6

  

  woah
• SportsAndLady

  

  Mohican00;1436632 wrote:freight shift, supposedly.
  
  Odd how something so minor can fuck some shit up

  Yeah apparently someone didn't strap the cargo correctly, causing it all to shift to the back of the plane after liftoff. Then, nose dive.
• justincredible

  

  Daaaaaaamn.
• said_aouita

  

  Ooops. Somebody didn't pass the Boy Scout knot tying test.
• gut

  Hard to say how fast it was falling...Obviously fast enough to cause it to explode on impact. Otherwise I wonder, because it looked like a heck of a recovery by the pilot and possibly survivable without the explosion.
• reclegend22

  

  I've had worse flights on Spirit. That's pretty bad, though.
• karen lotz

  

  got damn.
  
  i liked the driver not saying anything, just quietly shifting into reverse and backing away slowly.
• Sonofanump

  Article says that most of the crew was from SE Michigan.
• OSH

  

  I heard the plane stalled.
• gerb131

  

  Mohican00;1436632 wrote:freight shift, supposedly.
  
  Odd how something so minor can fuck some shit up

  killed aaliyah
  rip
• Automatik

  

  Holy. Fuck.
• Pick6

  

  Where was this at? For some reason the video reminds me of Russia and the video that was shot of the meteor.
• karen lotz

  

  Pick6;1436718 wrote:Where was this at? For some reason the video reminds me of Russia and the video that was shot of the meteor.

  
  I don't think the location is known.
• Sonofanump

  karen lotz;1436719 wrote:I don't think the location is known.

  The thread title says Bagram, Afghanistan.
• karen lotz

  

  Sonofanump;1436722 wrote:The thread title says Bagram, Afghanistan.

  
  thanks for playing along.
  
  
• sherm03

  

  Holy shit. That was rough.
• Pick6

  

  
• OSH

  

  Just read, potentially an "aerodynamic stall" that may have been caused by a cargo shift.
  
  Pilots are trained to handle aerodynamic stalls, but most of the time they are much higher (thousands of feet off the ground) when they work on the maneuvers.
• Terry_Tate

  

  Holy shit. I work close to an airport, damn this will fuck with me tomorrow.
• Midstate01

  

  If that is a c-5 leaving afhanistan then it probably was carrying a shit ton of fuel. But I dont see anything on any military sites, so maybe not a c-5.
• Midstate01

  

  Midstate01;1436735 wrote:If that is a c-5 leaving afhanistan then it probably was carrying a **** ton of fuel. But I dont see anything on any military sites, so maybe not a c-5.

  
  Nevermind. See its one of the civilian cargo planes. We have one of those here quite a bit. Sad for all involved.
• Zen

  Looks like bagram, though there isn't much to go off of. If that is the road I am thinking of, then I actually lived within half a mile of where that plane went down when I was stationed there. It's crazy to imagine what must have been going through the minds of those that were on the base that day. Bagram is one of the largest bases in Afghanistan, it's like a small town, 4-5000 people stationed there. Probably freake them out since it probably was quite a different feeling than a mortar attack...
• TedSheckler

  

  Zen;1436757 wrote:Looks like bagram, though there isn't much to go off of.

  
  What gave it away? The tread title?