747 cargo down in Afghanistan

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http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20130429-0

By the sound of this, it's a load shift on takeoff, aft CG and loss of controlled flight. Sad that we have to even be there, but that's a different zone.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Found a youtube version for those who prefer it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1airHY0mtsc

I have no preference to where it is hosted - since it is like watching someone fall from a building to their death, I now prefer not to have seen it at all. Other than morbid curiosity, there was nothing new I learned from it that could help me in the future.

It is the stuff of piloting nightmares.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Double your pleasure, aft CG AND a control failure? Talk about taking a trip to hell in a handbasket!

Video shows what appears to be recoveries from wing drops presumably below stall speed; is that possible in a 747 using only ailerons? I would think loss of rudder control would have yielded a video showing it crashing with a wing down.

 

[Jim Logajan]

No one mentioned loss of rudder control

Sorry - misread post 147.