Re: 747 jet crash ... secret for 3 months ??

[Kirby Grant]

On 3-May-2013, wrote:

> On May 3, 2:49�am, Charlie+ <char...@xxx.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 May 2013 01:57:11 GMT, "Kirby Grant" <KGr...@gmail.com> wrote
> > as underneath �:
> >
> > >On �2-May-2013, Klaus Schadenfreude <klausschadenfre...@yahoo.com>
> > >wrote:
> >
> > >> On Thu, 2 May 2013 16:33:15 -0700 (PDT), Transition Zone
> > >> <mogu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> >Major News Networks (like NPR) didn't even know until well over 2
> > >> >months later that a whole Boeing 747 crashed at Bagram airbase in
> > >> >Afghanistan ?? � �-- this video --
> >
> > >The video clip is nothing short of amazing. Basically it looks like the
> > >plan
> > >went into a full stall and then just fell out of the sky from a fairly
> > >low
> > >altitude. Speculation is that some tremendous shift in the cargo took
> > >place
> > >and drastically changed the center of balance of the 747. It happened
> > >so
> > >fast that the crew didn't even really have time to think "oh crap,
> > >we're all
> > >going to die".
> >
> >Looks to me it could be a port side power loss in an over edge of
> safe
> > envelope for the altitude climbout.
>
> That sounds similar to the Israeli state-run El Al 747 cargo plane
> that crashed in Amsterdam back in 1992. It lost both engines on one
> wing before it went down.
>
> -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862

Heck, if they had just looked under the wing I bet they would have found
those two lost engines.

[Keith W]

You'd lose that bet. They came off the wing and damaged the flaps
on that side. It was the assymetry caused that led directly to the loss
of control on the final approach for an emergency landing.

Keith

[Kirby Grant]

So are you saying that the engines became physically disconnected from the
wing in mid-air as opposed to just shutting down?

[Ivan Bodley]

"Kirby Grant" wrote in message news:am8ht.125214$aK1....@fed02.iad...

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On the El Al 1862 flight, yup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AmbsieVFcs