Part 1: Afghanistan

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This plane crash takes us to the Asian country of Afghanistan, which is located next to the following countries: Pakistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

 Pictured above is the aircraft involved in this crash

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Pictured above is the aircraft involved in this crash.

National Airlines Flight 102, registered as November 949 Charlie Alpha (N949CA), was an international cargo flight operated by National Airlines, the flight originated at Marcel Dassault Airport (IATA: CHR, ICAO: LFLX), France, it had stopovers at Camp Bastion Airport (IATA: OAZ, ICAO: OAZI), Afghanistan, and it had a refuelling stopover at Bagram Airport (IATA: DWC, ICAO: OMDW) and it's destination was Al Maktoum Airport (IATA: OAI, ICAO: OAIX), Dubai, on the 29th of April 2013, the Boeing 747-400 operating this flight crashed moments after taking off from Bagram, all seven people on bard the plane were killed.

The aircraft was making its regular refuelling stop in Bagram airport and it was ready to fly to Dubai, the plane taxied out to Bagram airport Runway 03, the plane took off from the runway at 15:30pm local time and it was climbing through 1,200feet when the plane's nose rose sharply, this caused the aircraft to stall, then the plane banked to the right and it levelled off just before the plane impacted the ground; the whole aircraft exploded into a large fireball, which almost damaged vehicles nearby to the crash site, the crash site was off the end of Runway 03, it crashed within the perimeter of the airfield, all seven people, all of whom were U.S citizens, died in the crash; four pilots, two mechanics and a loadmaster, no one on the ground was injured.

The summary of the crash was lost of control after takeoff due to a load shift resulting in heavy damage to the flight controls.

Below is a video explains what happened that day, video credit goes to The Flight Channel on Youtube.

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