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Ever hear of cargo shift? These would subject cargo to far higher g forces, making it much more likely cargo could move and unbalance the plane. Google 747 cra
by valuearb 6y ago
Ever hear of cargo shift? These would subject cargo to far higher g forces, making it much more likely cargo could move and unbalance the plane.
Google 747 crash Iraq for the most spectacular example of this happening in real life.
- dehrmann 6y agoYikes, but "unbalancing" was only part of the problem: Guessing you're referencing National Airlines Flight 102 > ...improperly secured cargo broke free during the take-off and rolled to the back of the cargo hold, crashing through the rear pressure bulkhead and disabling the rear flight control systems. This rendered the aircraft uncontrollable, making recovery from a stall brought on by a change of balance from the shifted cargo impossible. Also > the cargo of five mine resistant ambush protected vehicles (three Cougars and two Oshkosh M-ATV's), totaling 80 tons of weight, had not been properly secured. That's serious cargo.
- inetsee 6y agoI would have hated being in that bus driving towards the crash site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUWC2jfjqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUWC2jfjqI
- valuearb 6y agoI did not know it broke through the pressure bulkhead, like I said it’s an extreme example. In the case of this plane design I think you’d see a lot of much smaller cargo shifting incidents, where banking one direction or another caused packages or their contents to shift to one direction. This could cause a more subtle change in center of gravity, that the pilot may counteract at first, but leads to further shifting or an unrelated problem that causes an accident.
- iso1631 6y agoIraq? I know about the one that crashed taking off from Bagram, the only 747 loss related to Iraq I can think of was the BA one blown up in the Gulf War