Indeed, very sad.

 

It's hard to watch, but there's video on Live Leak showing the crash.

 

Warning: Not easy to watch knowing people died.

 

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

 

That's a sobering video to watch.  Horrifying last few moments for the crew.  Makes me a slight bit depressed.

That's awful. I would not like the be the investigator who has to listen to the CVR.

 

RIP

Just learnt it was a converted freighter carrying 5 MRAP's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP

I've seen a lot of plane crashes both in video and in person but this is the worst. It about made me cry to watch it. God be with the crew and their familys.

It's been a bad week for aviation out here. 

 

Yeah there's been quite a few GA incidents over here in LA this week. Yesterday two C172's collided and one went into the side of a mountain and other made a forced landing in a golf course. Also someone else managed to completely flip over on landing! 

 

Complete shock watching this! I remember having dreams about aircraft crashes, never in my life thought I'd see a 747 tumble out of the sky like that. Seriously upsetting  :(

Wow, you can actually hear the engines shutting down/losing power/dying when it crashes. So surreal. 

 

 

That is insane. I saw video from a different angle from the rear yesterday. Seeing it from this angle is scary. Not much that you can do in this case and it looks like they did a pretty good job keeping it up right. 

 

 

Where did you see that? I didn't know there was another angle.

I saw some coments on Pprune forums, for now radio amateurs have reported load shift and fly controls problems. 

Not my observation - landing gear is down for the long time before impact - not retracted or extended again? 

 

Realy sad. RIP.

Considering how fast it shot up at takeoff,probably no time. Scary. RIP

While on the subject we lost a local airman over there the other day.  Capt. Reid K. Nishizuka USAF was killed when his MC-12 (Beech Super King Air) went down in Kandahar.  His brother is just a year younger also a USAF Capt (B-2 pilot).   Requiem in Pacem.

 

scott s.

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Learned about this on Reddit this afternoon, was confused by the February timestamp on the video, and was wondering why I didn't know about this until today.   Seems obvious now that the camera settings were incorrect.   I have seen all kinds of crash videos on the web, but this one takes the cake as the most terrifying and heartbreaking of them all.  I actually feel tears coming on.  As an avid FSX AI enthusiast, and I love adding all kinds of obscure airlines/cargo operators traffic to my sim, and this cargo carrier is one of the more obscure ones, so I am very familiar with their fleet.  I have seen a National 747-400 BCF at my local airport (KPHL) about 2 years ago, and the minute I saw that silver beauty, I knew I had to add it to my FSX skies.   There is no way to be certain, but it's possible that the one I saw at the remote parking area at KPHL may have been one of the two BCF's National operates, so that could be why I feel a personal connection to this tragedy.

 

This must be the only video I have seen that shows an extreme stall at low altitude, the worst kind, in such detail.   Watch the plane lose all forward momentum, and bellflop to the ground, is just the way stalls are described in flight instruction theory books and sim practice.   I'd imagine if this happened at a much higher altitude, the crew may have stood a chance of recovery.   I was just thinking yesterday about how there has been no major U.S. airline or cargo fatal accident in recent memory, and I'm saddened to hear about this accident.   Last 747 cargo crash of significance I can recall is a UPS 747-400 crash in Dubai, caused by the carriage of flammable lithium ion batteries.

The whole thing is just surreal. I try to imagine what was going on inside that airplane. What should have been another takeoff like the thousands they've had suddenly gets out of control. Like Ryan said before, at some point they realized what was going to happen and how powerless they were. It's chocking.

On the last frames before the impact I believe you can see a dash of light coming through the cockpit window and I just couldn't stop thinking that there were people in there who, at that point, probably had realized what their fate was, and a second later you see the crash and you know those people have just died.

Surreal video!

Not often investigators have such quality video of the crash.

 

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Horrible! So sad! RIP!

What's really terrifying about this is that it seems there's nothing the pilots could have done to avert it. If what is suspected is true, stuff just wasn't tied down properly back there.

Or the locks or other tie downs busted off from being faulty. Who knows. Seems unlikely. Ive loaded alot of 744s back in the day, and there is plenty of redundancy in place if one breaks. So seems something else may have happened. 

Maybe sabotage. Lots of questions. Thats an extreme pitch up.