a multi-ton vehicle lets loose to bring about an out-of-balance configuration; the vehicle broke through the aft pressure bulkhead, destroying everything beyond and catastrophically upsetting the aircraft’s balance.

The US State Department doesn’t allow government employees to go to certain international locations, especially places considered in-conflict, or war zones; Afghanistan is such a war zone.

All Rights Reserved. Neither did the loadmaster: he had never worked a National Airlines flight with an MRAP as part of the cargo load before, not even the 12 ton version. These loads require special handling or may require restriction in how many are allowed to be shipped on a civilian aircraft at one time.

In addition, the 18-ton vehicle’s tires were deflated; they were not fully inflated and rigid; the wheels were not blocked. Additionally, Fort Bastion is a British military base; the FAA and DoD have no jurisdiction on a foreign country’s base. a flash or noise; technically, in the back of the eyewitness’s mind, B747s just don’t fall out of the sky without an explosion or the BOOM-BOOM of an engine compressor stall. All other possibilities, e.g. the debris exiting the aircraft’s tail. However, the DoD conducts annual audits on each of the operators it contracts to. The problem with expert eyewitnesses is that they ‘ad lib’ their visual account; it’s like the fishing story where the Flounder keeps getting bigger and fights harder each time one tells the story until it becomes a Marlin. He/She doubted what their eyes were seeing until reality kicked in, but then it was too late; the aircraft was in flames on the ground and their technical expertise and logic started filling in the blanks of what they must have observed; they manufactured some explanations for the incident in their minds. In Fort Bastion, a British-run military field, there was no United States’ (US) Department of Defense (DoD) oversight to verify their military load crews were following proper procedures in the securing of the vehicles to their individual pallets; I’m not talking about inside the B747, but on their shipping pallets built up hours before loading. A video was taken by an airport worker that captured the event, showing the B747 aircraft in an aerodynamic stall; the attitude of the aircraft was so severe that it appears that the aircraft was in an out-of-control, imbalance situation.

To find the cause(s), one has to look beyond the accident and the location (Bagram). I have learned that there are two unreliable sources of information concerning accidents: a video recording and an expert eyewitness. Perhaps the controller, in his/her mind, couldn’t understand the impending disaster at the time it was happening, because there was just … too much … to process, and too little time to do it in. Finally, the team the NTSB used to investigate the accident had little to no personal air carrier operations experience. Required fields are marked *.

Tags: Afghanistan, analysis, crash, national air flight 102 EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an independent analysis and is in no way an official investigation.

Worse, the accident may be repeated, and at great cost.

videos or eyewitness testimony, and use our heads. I’ve been involved in commercial aviation for 35 years. This is a deflection of responsibility on the NTSB’s part. It may not be incorrect – in this case, it is what caused the accident – but a presumption of evidence is often as hard to disprove as an accused criminal’s presumption of guilt. It should have because it places a good portion of the accident’s responsibility on a ramp that took two hours to fly from. No special guidance, strapping diagrams or photos were provided to him.

A video recording is unreliable because when the video is reviewed, it’s assumed the obvious answer is undeniable; the airplane obviously did something and people – even professional investigators – are quick to conclude that the accident happened in accordance with what was obviously seen: an aircraft stalls in flight, pointing nose up, because, e.g. It carries cargo both commercially and for the military, Kaufman said. The NTSB reported that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was irresponsible in its lack of oversight of National Airlines and their procedures for shipping military equipment.

The NTSB failed to exploit this important fact. The more time between event and interview, the more the story evolves in their memory. The eyewitness reacts to the unexpected event by ‘remembering’ things that did not happen or overlooking things that did; he/she supports what he/she ‘sees’ by relying on their expert’s pride. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. an air carrier’s operations, the investigator(s) must be educated and/or experienced in the cultures of how air operators, e.g. This is why sometimes we have to step back, close our eyes to the obvious, e.g. By not looking beyond the accident, what was missed may happen again. This means that the B747’s weight and balance manifest was calculated in another airport and was unchanged in Bagram; that the B747 flew from Fort Bastion to Bagram without incident. Suddenly there were flashes or noises that were never there … or were, e.g. The NTSB missed this fact; they did not go back to Fort Bastion to look at the ramp operating procedures.

The NTSB overlooked these facts. 1: Katy and Tompkins playing now on Texan Live. No new votes being cast, Harris Co. election admin says, Judges dismiss Trump claims in Georgia, Michigan, Counties with worst COVID-19 surges overwhelmingly voted Trump, Eta expected to reach Gulf of Mexico next week, Houston Rodeo eliminates Open Show for 2021, Houston woman pleads guilty in massive marriage fraud scheme, False claims of Wisconsin voter fraud rely on wrong turnout numbers, RELATED: Flight recording suggests crashed cargo jet crew lost control. Most of that time was spent dealing with air cargo and much of it has involved, both directly and indirectly, major accident investigation. “Of course, there was a flash of light. However, it was not the cause of the accident.

Let me refer back to the January 8, 2003, Air Midwest accident in Charlotte airport, where the Beech 1900D crashed due to weight and balance errors and incorrectly rigged flight controls: the elevators were incorrectly rigged five days before. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. This can’t be happening, can it?! And to support the theory, the freight on National 102 (an 18-ton armored vehicle) fits the profile of a proper cause, e.g. It is my experience that if findings in an investigation are missed, people die. While the shifting freight may have caused the accident, it wasn’t the cause. The DoD were the authority with eyes on site; they should have been in front of National’s loading procedures, especially those procedures that address unusual loads, e.g.

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