“That tends to lend credence to my speculation (shared by several others btw) of a blackout caused by G-forces in the turn.”
The early reports mentioned several times that he’d declared “Mayday”. If so, that wouldn’t seem consistent with a blackout, would it?
No, it wouldn’t. Mayday + ‘augured into ground’ sounds like straight line wind? Might also explain the diverse injuries.
Re: “...early reports mentioned several times that he’d declared “Mayday”.”
Now that’s the first time I’ve seen that significant bit of information. It does indeed alter our speculations a bit, and after the investigation is completed I’m sure that I’m not the only one who will be proven to have been way off the mark.
A lot more data and evidence will need to be collected and carefully analyzed before anyone really knows for certain what caused this tragedy or how it might have been prevented... if they ever know.
Sometimes you never can tell for sure, and an educated guess or speculation is what you’re left with.
It is one conceivable scenario however, lacking any preceding transmission. I rather doubt that any of these airplanes had a “black box” data recorder on board.