747 Crash in Afghanistan
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- benfal990
iam taking the plane to Ireland in two weeks and that always makes me nervous... iam always thinking of a crashes and terrorists...
- CygnusZero40
The whole thing with crashes is im sure it sucks going down, but you know you wont feel anything. Noone on that plane suffered. Lights out instantly.
- Yeh, you can only hope the g-force knocked them out in an instant. Bless them all.mikotondria3
- yeah but... it sucks dying.. :/ /benfal99
- Well, I dont think after you die you're bummed that you died.CygnusZero4
- fadein110
had its undercarriage down - usually up by then?
- sea_sea0
that's gonna give me nightmares :(
- hans_glib0
ugh
- Akagiyama0
The way it just pauses....hovering, then comes down. Gives me that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. :(
- Akiraprise0
Really relevant advert...
- Nice one Google!animatedgif
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- awkward Q_QZOOP
- lol wowCygnusZero4
- why won't the video play?74LEO
- GeorgesIV0
saw it yesterday and went
"hhhmmm bagram air base hmmmmm loaded with material hmmmm"- seizure?detritus
- bagram is sadly known for two things >> torture prison (still going on) and the flagrant heroin trade going on thereGeorgesIV
- God forbid it could've just been something prosaic. Best to leap to straight into fantasy, eh?detritus
- yeah, true could have been anything, but at least take this occasion to inform yourself about bagram, luv u detGeorgesIV
- For Georges, the silver lining that every cloud has is merely the reflection off the bottom of a chemtrail planelocustsloth
- I love how conspiracy theorists are convinced they're the only ones paying attention - frankly, the idea ofdetritus
- - Afghanistan havig dodhy drug deals and titruew prisons never entered my tiny, blinkered little mind. Woe are we all, The Sheeple!detritus
- - Afghanistan having dodgy drug deals and torture prisons never entered my tiny, blinkered little mind.detritus
- shit.detritus
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- I feel Georges has lost the plot. Never remember the guy being so wacky. Oh well.inteliboy
- Beeswax0
I made the website of the construction company that built parts of bagram airbase. it's basically a USAF airbase. Don't think drug smugglers can use it the way they want.
- ignore what I said please, I'm just some guy on a web forum
open google and make your own mind beeswax ;PGeorgesIV - and google karzai's brother while you at it,GeorgesIV
- yeah, open fucking google you lemming.Fax_Benson
- ignore what I said please, I'm just some guy on a web forum
- ZOOP0
At least it was relatively quick. Unlikely it was carrying anything other than infrastructure related.
The one guarantee in life is that nothing is guaranteed.
- CygnusZero40
Kinda weird how it looks like its not really coming down that fast, but as soon as it hits the ground the whole thing spontaneously combusts. Could be an illusion. For all I know that thing was moving 150mph when it hit the ground. Looks like 50mph to me at the most.
- From free-fall it's 16' per second per second.ZOOP
- I think 'explodes' would've sufficed.detritus
- looks fucking fast considering it was probably 200 feet upmarychain
- errr....2000 feet up rathermarychain
- 1,200'ZOOP
- just seeing the size of it increase makes me shiver... it's moving FAST! Approaching trains look slow... think about itmonospaced
- At 7 seconds of free-fall it would be traveling about 70mph.ZOOP
- 9.81m/s^2 x 6 or 7 sec = ~58.86-68.67m/s or 131-154mphcotton
- < lolCygnusZero4
- ZOOP0
http://www.angio.net/personal/cl…
400m: 88.54 Meters per Second = 318.76 km/h (198.0583392984968 Miles per Hour)
terminal velocity....damn!
- mikotondria30
It's awful, but don't let it put you off flying - there are thousands in the air right now, all perfectly safe, cruising along. There's one taking off ...now....and....now....and....n... ones landing...then...and just then...and now...Millions of safe miles traveled every hour. So safe is it that when one goes wrong, it's international news.
- cotton0
http://www.angio.net/personal/cl… if anyone wants to figure out how hard it hits the ground.
- CygnusZero40
There's really no reason to fear flying. I once read something like 10,000 flights take place in the US every day. When is the last time you heard about a major airline crash in the US? I cant even remember the last one. Maybe that one that happened in New York after 9/11/01? Even worldwide, you dont hear about major airline crashes very often. It's extremely rare compared to how many flights actually take place.
I think the whole thing is there actually isnt much that can bring a modern plane down. There are so many backup systems and ways to deal with problems without losing the entire plane. It actually usually ends up needing to be a series of problems to take the whole thing down.
- Yes, it's always a chain of errors that causes failure - that's how the systems are designed, to require as manymikotondria3
- 10,000?
closer to 80,000 i thinkelektro - things as possible to go wrong to affect the stable flow of rapidly moving air over the wings.mikotondria3
- 80,000? Maybe worldwide. Sounds like way too much per day in the US. Not sure though.CygnusZero4
- single engine failure at that unusual climb rate would do it.fadein11
- there are commercial, private and millitary flights .. hard to know how many there really is per day.elektro
- there are commercial, private and millitary flights .. hard to know how many there really is per dayelektro
- CygnusZero40
Ive watched too many episodes of Air Disasters. When there is a hydraulic failure, the flaps and stabilizers can actually be moved manually, so even a hydraulic failure isnt enough on its own to take the thing down.
It usually has to be either a bunch of different things, or a major structure failure, which is extremely rare. When is the last time a wing fell off a plane? It just doesnt happen. They are built to withstand forces far beyond anything they would ever experience in the sky.
- remember they do a non standard climb from that airstrip... could exaggerate a single problem like bird strike etc.fadein11
- Ah, I didnt know that.CygnusZero4
- albums0
I did some math...
given the specs on a 747 and the reported height it ascended to...
weight: 975,000 lbs
cross section area: 1704 sq ft
drag coefficient: 0.031
altitude: 1,200 ftit was traveling roughly 129.664 miles per hour upon impact
- that's nasa math btwalbums
- Its amazing they can get almost a million pounds off the ground.CygnusZero4
- Very cool if not accurateZOOP
- nice, my low-end was only 2mph off. *flex*cotton
- highly accuratealbums
- lol I stole that line
< most variables accounted for, very accurate.ZOOP - http://media.tumblr.…GeorgesIV
- yurimon0
crashed may 1st almost 3:33. Im waiting to see if anything else goes down today...
- CygnusZero40
Watching that vid though, it does look like it was maybe too heavy. It was ascending and then just died/stalled. At first it looked like it was going to vertical to me and lost lift, but may not be true. Could have been a normal angle from what I can tell but couldnt sustain the ascent.
