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I was thinking many of these commercial flights are used to making pretty huge nose up takeoffs for noise abatement at crowded runways. Not sure of this airlines departure profiles but seems to me they could have shallowed the nose up attitude for this specific cargo to lessen the gravity effect after rotation. I didn't read the report but does it give a time they suspect the load shifted? Shortly after rotation? Several seconds later?
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If some of those straps had remained intact for the nose up part of that "flight", there is no guarantee they would have held for any nose down type flight and they could have "zippered", just as easily sending an MRAP or two right through the cockpit.
Keep the descent rate low and the forces that could cause a forward movement can be greatly minimized.
I was thinking many of these commercial flights are used to making pretty huge nose up takeoffs for noise abatement at crowded runways. Not sure of this airlines departure profiles but seems to me they could have shallowed the nose up attitude for this specific cargo to lessen the gravity effect after rotation. I didn't read the report but does it give a time they suspect the load shifted? Shortly after rotation? Several seconds later?
That's always bothered me regarding airline procedures. They're trading speed for altitude. Both are good. But that very steep pitch always seems to be a catastrophe waiting to happen. I realize that jet aircraft are overpowered for the most part (and nearly always have at least one "spare" engine), but I sure as hell didn't do maximum performance climbs in piston singles every single time. I much preferred to work-up a nice cushion of speed while still over the runway. I know that altitude is everything on takeoff, but the prospect of being anywhere near stalling speed at such steep climb-outs (even if only for a few seconds) just never sat well with me.
The whole noise abatement thing has always bugged me. Airport is located on the edge of, or outside of town. Urban sprawl takes over and the next thing you know, air operations have to tiptoe around the neighborhood like a teenager sneaking back into the house late at night. In short... large communities of whiny people suck! Arf withwithstanding...