National Airlines Flight 102

National Airlines Flight 102

N949CA, the aircraft involved in the accident, in December 2012.
Accident summary
Date	29 April 2013
Summary	Stalled after load shift and impacted ground shortly after takeoff
Site	Bagram Airfield, Parwan, Afghanistan 34°57′37″N 069°16′37″E / 34.96028°N 69.27694°E / 34.96028; 69.27694
Crew	7
Fatalities	7 (all)
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	Boeing 747-428BCF
Aircraft name	Lori
Operator	National Airlines
Registration	N949CA
Flight origin	Camp Bastion
Stopover	Bagram Airfield
Destination	Dubai Al Maktoum

National Airlines Flight 102 was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between the British military base Camp Bastion in Afghanistan and Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai, with a refueling stop at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. On 29 April 2013, the Boeing 747-400 operating the flight crashed moments after taking off from Bagram, killing all seven people on board.

The aircraft involved was a Boeing 747-428BCF,registration N949CA,S/N 25630. It was manufactured in 1993 as a passenger aircraft and later modified for service as a freighter before being sold to National Airlines. At the time of the crash, the aircraft was flying on behalf of the United States Air Force's Air Mobility Command.

At the time of the crash the airline had been operating between Camp Bastion and Dubai for a month. The accident flight had originated in Camp Bastion and had stopped at Bagram Airfield to refuel. The aircraft then took off from Bagram's runway 03 at 15:30 local time and was climbing through 1,200 feet (370 m) when its nose rose sharply. According to an unconfirmed claim, a crew member was heard on VHF air-band radio reporting that some of the load of five heavy military vehicles in the cargo hold had shifted. The aircraft then stalled, crashed, and exploded into a large fireball. The crash site was off the end of runway 03, within the perimeter of the airfield. All seven crew, all of whom were U.S. citizens, died: four pilots, two mechanics, and a loadmaster.

A thunderstorm was also in the vicinity of Bagram at the time of the crash and the wind changed direction by 120° during a one-hour period commencing approximately 35 minutes before the crash. A dashboard camera on a car in the vicinity of the runway end recorded the crash.CNN stated that a government official speaking on the condition of anonymity said that the video was authentic.