747 Crash in Afghanistan
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- CygnusZero40
http://gma.yahoo.com/video/afgha…
Car.go believe to have come loose.
- Woukd have made it too ass heavy, holding the plane down.CygnusZero4
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- fadein110
it's the one part of flying when I feel a little uncomfortable... just after take off during the steepish climb. Too many stalls in flight sims made me nervous.
- What exactly would make a plane stall during an ascent?CygnusZero4
- < worst part everyoneRamanisky2
- A stall is just losing power to the engine right? No thrust through it?CygnusZero4
- a stall is when the plane loses lift...that's it. If the angle of ascent is too steep and the engine power is too lowmarychain
- then there is not enough airflow under the wing to create lift and maintain flightmarychain
- fadein110
^ I think a stall is when there is not enough lift which is not necessarily an engine issue - it was climbing super steep with unstable payload (apparently) so ended up bottom heavy - lost forward motion - stalled - and crashed.
- it landed flat on its belly with no forward motion - just dropped from sky - terrifyingfadein11
- CygnusZero40
I think for the engines to work they need constant air flow through them. IF the ascent is too steep, the air flow is disrupted and the plane stalls/engines cant function properly.
I could be wrong. I figured if you ascend too steep that would cause a stall on take off.
- If Im right a stall definitely is an engine issue.CygnusZero4
- Or maybe it is just lift. I dont know. http://en.wikipedia.…)
CygnusZero4 - if you don't know, be quiet.detritus
- lift.marychain
- marychain0
a stall is when the plane loses lift...that's it. If the angle of ascent is too steep and the engine power is too low then there is not enough airflow under the wing to create lift and maintain flight.
- marychain0
Practiced these in flight training - but at a much higher altitude and in a Cessna 150
The trick is pitch down in a stall to increase airspeed. An airliner is so heavy it's hard to manuever at low speed - they never had enough altitude to recover.
- The 747 was only about 1200 ft. in the air, it had no chance.utopian
- instrmntl0
After seeing the footage, my father's guess is either the trim was set incorrectly, or there was a shift in carRgo.
- i_monk0
The way it levelled out just before impact, it looks like ^^ is what the pilot was trying to do. A few hundred more feet and it may have worked.
- I got the feeling like he knew there was no way out, so level it out to try and crash "cleanly".CygnusZero4
- Instinct trying to survive, even though it apparently wasnt possible to survive this.CygnusZero4
- It didn't have much forward speed, I don't think a sideways crash would have been less clean.i_monk
- It had forward speed, enough to take off, but it stalledmonospaced
- and when it stalled it lost most of that forward speed.i_monk
- monospaced0
- Snakes on a plane?74LEO
- Flightmonospaced
- UPSIDE DOWN!instrmntl
- exactlymonospaced
- exactlymonospaced
- We just watched that over the weekend. It doesn't exactly put pilots in a good light.instrmntl
- Alcoholic pilots are always getting a bad rap.monospaced
- Cocaine sniffing, no less. And chugging vodka on the flight!instrmntl
- People are just too uptight these days.monospaced
- pill popin pilots are under rated.74LEO
- 74LEO0
I guess they will be pushing back the release of 7500 again.
- 74LEO0
This scared the shit outta me first time I sawer it.
- You should see the original version of that Twilight Zone. Starring the Shat.ETM
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- MHDC0
(similar to earlier post) The copy in this ad and the visual seemed poorly mixed
- utopian0
- Seems even more dramatic than a real crash would be.CygnusZero4
- Curiou, that. I'd've expected a pop Hollywood movie to keep things quite accurate and becoming of the situation.detritus
- mikotondria30
I've had quite vivid plane crash dreams over the years. The last one woke me up - wife and I snoozing on a plane, dramatic loss of altitude, look up out of the window to see the ground in the wrong place coming at us, pilot tries to swing it round, no good - realise we're going in, hold wife's hand. End.
- are the dreams in which you're dying the best you've ever had?monospaced
- mmm, not necessarily, no - I know that death in dreams is always metaphorical. Mine was about my fears surroundingmikotondria3
- it's a song lyrici_monk
- ;)monospaced
- haha :)mikotondria3
- GeorgesIV0
I've travelled extensively and the only time in my entire time I almost soiled my pants was when we took of from incheon (SK) the dumb pilot started climbing to abruptly and the rear of the plane hit the tarmac,
you could hear flies fart for 15 min after that
- SteveJobs0
i had a dream like this when i was in 1st grade. it was pretty surreal and one of the few images that stuck in my mind through life. while i was too young to understand the physics of flight or gravity, my dream was eerily similar to this video except instead of a stall on ascent it was just an inexplicable fall from the sky. interesting how my mind still struggles to wrap itself around the surrealness of this much the same as when i was a child.
- monospaced0
I was flying into a remote part of Mexico in a tiny plane on a very windy day and the pilot made 3 attempts at landing, each time wheels touching the fucked up runway while we slid sideways, almost tipping over, and each time he lifted back up to circle around and try again. Scary stuff for sure. I definitely felt like I was going to die.
- I had that same experience trying to land a Santa Barbara. Intense fog, 3 attempts, finally landed...cabin applause.instrmntl
- Oh yes, SB. That's where I grew up. I have taken those small planes there so many times.monospaced
