{{The final moments of the flight of the cargo plane that crashed Monday in Afghanistan, killing all seven crew members, appear to have been captured on a dashboard camera.}}
The approximately 3-minute video shows what appears to be the Boeing 747-400 jet climbing shortly after takeoff, at 11:20 a.m., from Bagram Airbase.
But some 12 seconds into the video, the jet appears to stall, rolls from side to side, and drops.
At 23 seconds, the plane crashes, nose first, into the ground off the side of the road, erupting into a ball of orange flame and black smoke.
There is no immediate reaction from inside the vehicle. After the driver brings the vehicle equipped with the webcam to a halt, at 1:15 in the video, someone says, “Oh, f***!”
At 1:33, as the camera shows the vehicle moving once again, a noise can be heard — possibly from a dog. Someone says, “All right, come here. Shh! Shh! Shh!” The yelping stops; the vehicle stops.
At 2:13 in the video, the vehicle approaches the crash site and stops, the camera once again capturing thick black smoke. The video ends.
“That’s one dramatic fall out of the sky,” said Arthur Rosenberg, a pilot, engineer and partner with the New York-based law firm Soberman & Rosenberg, which specializes in litigation stemming from plane crashes. “It could have been a rock.”
He added, “The plane just flat-out stalled. There’s absolutely no question about that.”
He said too much cargo in the rear of the plane is one of several possible causes.
“It looks to me like the plane pitched up; the most likely cause would be too much load in the rear,” he said in a telephone interview.
“The plane dropped below minimum controllable airspeed and started to roll.”
But, he added, “It’s way too early to tell.”
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{CNN}
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