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My favorite anecdote I heard of from a flight instructor is that of a cargo plane taking off that had some heavy vehicle tied down in its hold. It broke free of
by teeray 2y ago
My favorite anecdote I heard of from a flight instructor is that of a cargo plane taking off that had some heavy vehicle tied down in its hold. It broke free of its straps during takeoff and rolled to the back of the aircraft, which shifted the CG such that the plane entered an unrecoverable stall and crashed.
- aaronharnly 2y agoI’m not sure if this is the one your instructor was referencing, but there was a fairly notorious such event in Afghanistan about a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_102 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_102 https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accidents/N949CA https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid...
- wkat4242 2y agoAlso the excellent (as usual) write up from Admiral Cloudberg https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/strength-in-numbers-the-crash-of-national-airlines-flight-102-4d693bf58eeb https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/strength-in-numbers-the-...
- wlonkly 2y agoThere is a video which makes its way around the Internet regularly of this crash[1] which was attributed to exactly that, killing all seven on board. (Which makes it pretty heavy for an anecdote, admittedly.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_102 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_102