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Dramatic video shows Boeing 747 crash after taking off

The video taken from the dashboard of a moving car shows the aircraft take off. Then after going upwards in the sky it stops, turns around and beings a plunge that leads to a huge explosion.

FP Staff|May 01, 2013, 15:39:03 IST

Dashboard or dash cameras perhaps provided the best visuals of the recent meteor strike in Russia and thanks to one of these devices the dramatic crash of a huge Boeing 747 right after it took off in Bagram, Afghanistan.The B747-400 cargo plane was operated by the National Air Cargo.[caption id="attachment_743565" align="alignleft" width="380"]

The Boeing 747 moments before hitting the ground.[/caption]The timestamped video taken from the dashboard of a moving car shows the aircraft ascending after taking off. However, a few seconds into the video you can see the aircraft stall and dramatically crash to the earth and a huge explosion.The shocked car driver immediately reverses his car to get as far away from the explosion as possible.According to reports, the load in the aircraft shifted just after it took off, causing it to stall, said theaviationist.com.Check out the dramatic video:

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