747 crash in afganastan yesterday

[cofi]

http://jalopnik.com/deadly-afghan-pl...s-ho-485974117

that is one of the crazyiest videos ive ever seen 8 people killed they are saying it was due to load shift

[muddywings]

I'm not in the game any more but that is just haunting!
God Speed and Here's a Toast....

[Sparky]

That is scary. It just fell out of the sky.

[patrick0685]

that scary...RIP

[Bailey Guns]

I've never seen anything like that. Unreal watching a 747 just fall out of the sky. Pretty tragic.

[n8tive97]

Wow, that sucks.... RIP

[ChunkyMonkey]

RIP... For few sec, it just hovered til gravity > thrust.

Embedding it here..

[baglock1]

Unreal. For the 7 souls on board, RIP

RIP... For few sec, it just hovered til gravity > thrust.

Actually until gravity > lift. Thrust is the opposing force of drag.

Probably not the time to nitpick, but I'm an engineer. Nitpicking is what we do.

[Ridge]

Unreal. For the 7 souls on board, RIP



Actually until gravity > lift. Thrust is the opposing force of drag.

Probably not the time to nitpick, but I'm an engineer. Nitpicking is what we do.

Given the angle of attack on that thing, it was probably thrust more than lift keeping it in the air as long as it did.

[baglock1]

Given the angle of attack on that thing, it was probably thrust more than lift keeping it in the air as long as it did.

If that was what the OP meant, it's possible there was a significant portion of thrust contributing to the vertical vector.