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Old 05-01-2013, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by TylerH860 View Post
How in the heck do you get a 747 in that much trouble? All 7 of the crew were lost.

Dramatic video appears to show 747 crash in Afghanistan - CBS News
Simple. Loss of lift. Loss of lift occurs when the air moving under the air foils (wings) yield less than what the airframe needs to stay airborne, given it's speed and pitch. Once you lose (control) of a big, fat 'n heavy plane like that at low speed/low altitude, (however you do it) with no altitude to recover - it crash, go BOOM! Looks like they stalled it on ascent, with too much attitude and pitch. Why the aircraft stalled? Who knows. It does look as if the pilot was attempting to recover, but he ran out of altitude.
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