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Civilian Cargo Boeing 744 Down at Bagram
Civilian contract to US Air Force AMC went down today at Bagram. Condolences to the familys and friends of the 8 crew-members aboard. According to the Aviation Herald, listeners on the frequency heard the aircraft report a shifting load as the aircraft aprupty pitched upward and stalled right after takeoff. (avherald.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
At the risk of being insensitive, this thread was from 5 1/2 years ago.
Bagram needs to review security. Engine #1 may have been sabotaged. Engine #1 has failed as evidenced by careful examination of the video. It has flamed out and is ejecting unburnt fuel from the intake fan.
Interesting point as the Taliban announced responsibility but that news story was not followed.
Scares the shit outta me. Number 1 is definitely ejecting unburned fuel out of the intake fan.
Scares me that people do know what happened and thisstoy is going away quietly as billions in cash are handed in suitcases to the government there.
People have forgotten that the only reason we went in there in the 1st place was in pursuit of Bin Laden. We got sidetracked when Bush's ego made him want to avenge Daddy in Iraq. Peronally, bring 'em all home and let those folks continue to fight and kill each other as they will do when we leave anyway and instead of sending all that borrowed money overseas, let's at least spend it on the hungry and homeless here first. Had to get that off my chest. Miss Elizabeth, I guess it just stuck a nerve but you are so correct!
Sad part is the fact that freight dawgs are just doing their job and in this case their families probably don't have the financial support. Expendable is the word.
I don't accept that at all. I do not believe this crew made an error. I do believe this was an accident that was caused through terrorism. If the guys are not covered under an insurance specificaly tailored to the carriage of ordnance than the Senate should step in. If it is proven that the airport had bad security the DoD should pay up.
There has been very little talk about an engine, as far as it being seen. If we ever see a true report, it will be interesting, if not whitewashed. With this video, multiple witnesses, and recovery of both boxes, it should be fairly easy to determine. Engine or not, I am still bothered by the fact that the gear wasn't up or at least in a breaking mode going up. That is normally 1st thing done after liftoff, cleaning up the plane. That is a whole lot of drag on a normal takeoff, let alone a max climb, and then if he did lose an engine, it would have really added to the problem. Sad part was that as he pancaked on landing, he must have regained some control but just ran out of sky.
This is exactly my concern Wayne...if engines #1 and #2 had been subject to malintent..sabotage..they would have been busy trying to work out what the F was going on. I have a gut feeling that something is not right here..these guys were not Sunday drivers. The equipment failed. Because this was the civilian sector of DoD contract work we got to find out it happened. If something happened because the security at Bagram failed it could well be that the findings will be classified.