Please note the title of the video shown is incorrect. This is a video of National Airlines Flight 102 as detailed below. A dashboard camera on a car in the vicinity of the runway recorded the crash. National Airlines Flight 102 was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between the British military base Camp Bastion in Afghanistan and Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai, with a refueling stop at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. On 29 April 2013, a Boeing 747-400 operating the flight crashed moments after taking off from Bagram. All seven crew, all of whom were U.S. citizens, died: four pilots, two mechanics and a loadmaster. At the time of the crash the airline had been operating between Camp Bastion and Dubai for a month. The aircraft had taken off from Bagrams runway 03 at 15:30 local time (11:00 UTC) and was climbing through 1,200 feet (370 m) when its nose rose sharply. According to an unconfirmed claim, a crew member was heard on VHF air-band radio reporting that some of the load of five heavy military vehicles in the cargo hold had shifted; the aircraft then stalled and crashed. On 2 June 2013, investigators from the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of Afghanistan confirmed the load shift hypothesis; three armoured vehicles and two mine sweepers came loose and rolled backwards onto the rear bulkhead, damaging the aircraft and pushing the center of gravity outside its rear limit. Consequently, the aircraft became uncontrollable, pitched up sharply and stalled, and crashed moments later. https://facebook/photo.php?v=930310310318257
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 01:05:28 +0000
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