Well it appears to be a classic case of a massive stall, could see it going nose to the sky at the very start of the video.
About the only thing that would cause that would be a load shifting and ending up in the tail. And not talking about small things either, there would have had to be something very heavy and dense to throw out the CoG that far and to a point of non-recoverability. 5 military vehicles/trucks would do it.
Also note that in general, Ops in places like Afghanistan will usually call for maximum climb on takeoff in order to gain altitude due to danger from small arms and RPGs on the ground. Of course this puts much more stress on the airframe and also the load, making a failure of the load securing equipment more likely.
Doesn't seem to be that big a fireball either, doubt that it had a full tank of fuel onboard.
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