Looks to me like a classic stall-spin at low altitude. Slow speed, steep turn -- watch how the inside wing drops and it snaps right over.
I've done those at altitude to make myself aware of the danger of tightening your turn onto final if you overshoot on base leg. This kills a lot of pilots.
Looks to me like a classic stall-spin at low altitude. Slow speed, steep turn -- watch how the inside wing drops and it snaps right over. Yep. Makes sense to me. It looked like the inside (left) wing stalled in the turn, wouldn't that cause the plane to snap-roll over to the left like it did?
Looking at the second angle from the MSNBC footage, it looked like the pilot almost had enough room to get it pulled out--maybe another two or three hundred feet was all he needed. But I'm not a pilot and am just guessing.
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