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    National Airlines Flight 102 crashed after take-off from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on April 29, 2013, killing all 7 crew members. An investigation found that the cargo of 5 armored vehicles was not properly secured, which caused one of the vehicles to break loose during take-off and smash into the plane's horizontal stabilizer. This destroyed the stabilizer's jackscrew and hydraulic systems, paralyzing the plane's controls and causing it to stall and crash shortly after take-off. The crash was due to deficiencies in National Airlines' cargo securing procedures and loadmaster training.

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    National Airlines Flight 102 crashed after take-off from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on April 29, 2013, killing all 7 crew members. An investigation found that the cargo of 5 armored vehicles was not properly secured, which caused one of the vehicles to break loose during take-off and smash into the plane's horizontal stabilizer. This destroyed the stabilizer's jackscrew and hydraulic systems, paralyzing the plane's controls and causing it to stall and crash shortly after take-off. The crash was due to deficiencies in National Airlines' cargo securing procedures and loadmaster training.

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    National Airlines Flight 102 crashed after take-off from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on April 29, 2013, killing all 7 crew members. An investigation found that the cargo of 5 armored vehicles was not properly secured, which caused one of the vehicles to break loose during take-off and smash into the plane's horizontal stabilizer. This destroyed the stabilizer's jackscrew and hydraulic systems, paralyzing the plane's controls and causing it to stall and crash shortly after take-off. The crash was due to deficiencies in National Airlines' cargo securing procedures and loadmaster training.

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    National Airlines Flight 102 crashed after take-off from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on April 29, 2013, killing all 7 crew members. An investigation found that the cargo of 5 armored vehicles was not properly secured, which caused one of the vehicles to break loose during take-off and smash into the plane's horizontal stabilizer. This destroyed the stabilizer's jackscrew and hydraulic systems, paralyzing the plane's controls and causing it to stall and crash shortly after take-off. The crash was due to deficiencies in National Airlines' cargo securing procedures and loadmaster training.

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    Topic:
    The Crash of National Airlines Flight 102

    Date:
    21-12-2022

    KEY POINTS
    Date: 29 April 2013

    Summary: Lost control and crashed after take-off due to load shift resulting in heavy damage to flight
    controls.

    Site: Bagram Airfield, Parwaan Province, Afghanistan

    Aircraft type: Boeing 747-428BCF

    Aircraft name: Lori

    Operator: National Airlines

    Flight origin: “Marcel Dassault” Airport, Chateauroux, France

    Stopover: Camp Bastion, Helmand Province

    Destination: Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirate

    Occupants: 07

    Passengers: 0

    Crew: 07

    Deaths: 07

    Crew:
     The captain was 34-year-old Brad Hasler, had 6,000 flight hours, including 440 hours the Boeing
    747.
     The first officer was 33-year-old Jaime Lee Brokaw, had 1,100 flight hours, including 209 hours
    on the Boeing 747.
     The relief captain was 37-year-old Jeremy Lipka, and the relief first officer was 32-year-old
    Rinku Shuman.
     The loadmaster was 36-year-old Michael Sheets.
     the two mechanics were Gary Stockdale and Tim Garrett, both 51 years old.

    Incident:
    The airline had been running between Camp Bastion and Dubai for a month when the
    accident happened. The accident aircraft had taken off from Camp Bastion carrying five heavy armored
    vehicles before landing at Bagram Airfield for refueling. The plane later took off from runway 03 at
    Bagram at 15:30 local time, and as it climbed through 1,200 feet (370 m), its nose immediately raised.
    The plane then slowed, banked right, and level off just before hitting into the ground. The whole thing
    then burst into a huge blaze that almost damaged the neighboring cars. The accident site was inside the
    airfield's boundary, off the end of runway 3. All seven crew members, who were all citizens of the
    United States, perished: four pilots, two mechanics, and a loadmaster. There were no injuries on the
    ground. At the time of the crash, there was a thunderstorm near Bagram as well, and for an hour before
    the disaster, starting about 35 minutes earlier, the wind changed direction by 120°. The crash was
    captured on video by a dashboard camera on a car at the runway's end. The video shows the aircraft
    pitching up, going into a stall, and then quickly banking right after a little left bank, which suggests
    asymmetrical lift. The aircraft quickly landed on its right side and slammed into the earth at a shallow
    angle. A government official who spoke to CNN under the condition of anonymity said that the footage
    was real.

    Investigation:
    The crash was looked into by the Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority and the National
    Transportation Safety Board of the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration and the Boeing
    Company would also offer technical expertise and support to the inquiry, the NTSB said in a press
    statement on April 30, 2013. The load shift theory was confirmed by Afghan Ministry of Transport and
    Civil Aviation investigations on 2 June 2013. They discovered that the 80 tons of cargo from five mine-
    resistant ambush-protected vehicles was not properly secured. The rear bulkhead of the aircraft had
    been smashed through by at least one armored vehicle that had gotten loose and rolled backward.
    During the process, it badly damaged the horizontal stabilizer's components, destroying the jackscrew in
    the process, leaving the aircraft unstable and paralyzing its hydraulic systems. As a result, the pilot lost
    control of the aircraft, which led to an abnormal pitch-up rotation, stall, and crash to the earth. The crew
    was unable to restore control of the aircraft due to the damage. The NTSB found that "National Airlines'
    deficient procedures for restraining special cargo loads, which led to the loadmaster's inappropriate
    restraint of the cargo," were the most likely cause of this accident. The need that all loadmasters
    complete training was one of the main suggestions.

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