It stalled out but why?
Loss of lift on that left/ low wing. The right wing still generating lift, the left, not.
flying and analyzing from my office chair ... which is dangerous and notably under-informed.
At the end, it looked liked a ‘classic’ low airspeed/ low altitude/ stall and incipient spin into the ground.
The question(s) is WHY? Loss of power on both left engines??
Dunno.
Didn’t look like any time to react. So sad.
Whenever I see a cargo plane act like that in the air, it is usually one of three things:
Load Shift
Pilot Error
Mechanical failure
Load shift would look like that...everything is tied down, distributed in such a way to keep the center of gravity at the right place, and when the plane maneuvers, something not tied down breaks loose, sometimes hitting some other tied down load which gives way, creating a deadly chain vicious circle where the more things that give way and shift, the worse the attitude of the plane gets, causing more shift,until everything piles to the front or the back of the cargo area, and you either go in tail first or nose first.
If it were pilot error, that kind of maneuver would be seen in fog or darkness, where a pilot becomes disoriented and fails to trust instruments.
Mechanical error speaks for itself.
Ugh. Makes my stomach tighten to see that.