Replies to post #26513 on Cat House

[KJAX]

One of the pilots was from Jax. Looks like the cargo moved aft on takeoff causing an aft cg. That aft cg caused the plane to stall and was unrecoverable. Too sad.

[doughboy2]

Wow. Incredibly sad.

[catdaddyrt]

I was looking at that yesterday - very sad

[Porgie Tirebiter]

Wow, it's a classic departure stall. It could have been loaded too far aft, or the cargo shifted. At those war zone airports, it's standard procedure to climb out at V2+10 knots, and that provides a pretty radical nose-up attitude compared to what you normally experience in a civil airliner. With a deck angle of maybe up to 45° that cargo has to be lashed tight. Looking at the clouds, wind-shear may have been a factor as well.

Really sad.