Just noticed this thread.
I was the guy who shot the video of N898AT taking off from Fairbanks in September 2005:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV_...yer_detailpage
Looking at the posts back in 2007, I can confirm that the aircraft did not lose an engine on take off-it was entirely normal, tho as you can see, the rate of climb was glacial, to say the least.
I'm sorry about the poor quality of the video, but I shot it using the video facility on a fairly early high-end Bridge stills camera (a Minolta Dimage 7hi); and I'm a much better stills photographer than movie cameraman. And to prove that, here's a shot of N898AT that I took the same day:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...W7qs/lightbox/
And a head-on shot of the "business end" (or front, rather) taken the same day:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...W7qs/lightbox/
I felt rather sad the day I heard the aircraft had crashed, about two years later-tho fortunately with no fatalities and I think no-major-injuries.
Finally, a link to my one and only photo of a BAF Carvair back in the 70s:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/489750...cLW73G-cLW7qs/