“Ignoring the failed nose landing gear, I guess”
That’s more than likely faulty maintenance. Possibly metal fatigue but still related to maintenance and inspection.....or lack there of.
There’s a reason aircraft maintenance records are meticulously kept......or are supposed be anyway.
I’m obsessed with those videos about plane crashes and how eventually they always seem to tie it back to faulty maintenance from years before.
From the shadow in the video the gear hadn’t come down. Which means both the hydraulic system and emergency blow down failed. If I had to guess... A stuck gear uplock.
.....United States Air Force, Air Force Technical Order [AFTO] 781F, “Aerospace Vehicle Report and Maintenance Document” and related AFTO Forms 781A, 781H (”Aerospace Vehicle Flight Status and Maintenance Document”), ....the time-honored “the forms”......if it ain’t in writing it doesn’t exist....
do these AFTO forms bring back memories among the former and present aircraft maintenance “wrench-benders” out there.....??