Video of Airplane Crash

A civilian cargo plane crash at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul in Afghanistan has killed seven people.

Warning... F-bomb muttered



From LivelLeak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c32_1367332518

A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from the sprawling US Bagram airbase in Afghanistan with the Taliban claiming responsibility for “shooting down” the jet.
Thanks to LL User http://www.liveleak.com/c/cgarcia1125 for the footage posted on his YT channel.

But a Nato spokesman later denied any Taliban involvement, adding that the 20-year-old Boeing 747 had come down within the boundaries of the US base near the capital of Kabul.

Witnesses said the National Air Cargo-operated plane had reached an altitude of 1,300ft before “falling out of the sky”. According to the Aviation Safety Network, which carries incident reports from all registered jets, the plane had taken off from Bagram’s single concrete runway and “attained a very steep nose-up attitude” immediately after take-off.

The incident report said: “It rolled left and right and entered a stall, descending toward the ground until it struck the ground near the end of the runway.”

Flight radar tracking websites shows the jet flying into Afghanistan from Châteauroux in France on Monday. Before that it was in Salt Lake City, Utah.

“We did lose all seven crew members” said a spokeswoman for Florida-based National Air Cargo.

The Taliban’s claims of responsibility were denied by Nato which said there had been no reports of militant activity in or around the base at the time.

National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 freighter on behalf of US Mobility Command, registration N949CA performing cargo flight N8-102 from Bagram (Afghanistan) to Dubai Al Maktoum (United Arab Emirates) with 8 crew and cargo consisting of 5 military vehicles, has crashed shortly after
takeoff from Bagram Air Base's runway 03 and erupted into flames near the end of the runway within the perimeter of the Air Base.

Rescue and Recovery efforts are under way, the Air Base is currently locked down and the aerodrome is closed.

National Air Cargo confirmed their aircraft N949CA with 8 crew crashed at Bagram.

According to a listener on frequency the crew reported the aircraft stalled due to a possible load shift. The aircraft was carrying 5 military vehicles.

National Air Cargo operates three Boeing 747-400s with the registrations N952CA,
N919CA and N949CA. N949CA operated into Afghanistan yesterday (Apr 28th).

It it a miracle that one of the crew could have survived that disaster.

Ghost_Rider1949 wrote:

It it a miracle that one of the crew could have survived that disaster.

Huh? I thought that all of the crew died. There seemed to be an error in the number of crew on board (7 one time quoted, 8 another).

The video is already down. :-(

Eric wrote:

Ghost_Rider1949 wrote:

It it a miracle that one of the crew could have survived that disaster.

Huh? I thought that all of the crew died. There seemed to be an error in the number of crew on board (7 one time quoted, 8 another).

That's what I thought also. But all the articles that I read said there were 8 crew members on board. So beats me what is fact and what is fiction.

Jake92 wrote:

The video is already down. :-(

Try this link Jake. I just watched the video again at this link.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c32_1367332518

But the video that Eric posted first, it also still works.

Thank you Ghost..

I am not using the Forum video button... but using the embed code that many video sites use. It didn't load for me once, but I hit "refresh" and it loaded. Maybe the server was busy... I dunno.

Nobody survived. The people I know who fly these say it looks like it was a problem with the cargo...shifting, underestimated weight...

In examination you can tell they are starting to pull it out. A horrific scene. None of the crew survived.