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Did the pilot forget to remove the control locks? While hard to watch, like the Dale “Snort” Snodgrass crash video, it’s a vivid reminder of what can happen if we forget important parts of our checklists. RIP to the two souls on board. 🙁
I read that the pilot indicated he would be making an immediate turn towards the crowd. So very sorry, but twins can get tricky, except for Bob Hoover.
If he did start an immediate left turn, at an already high angle of attack, slow speed, that left wing could have immediately stalled and VMC took over.
Lift off below Vmc and loss of the critical engine? Suspiciously looks like a Vmc LOC and roll over at the worst possible moment.
It does look suspiciously like a Vmc roll, but the video quality is low enough I can’t quite make out the position of the control surfaces.
Did anyone else see something see something fly into the scene from the high left, then circle and plummet and hit the ground? What was that? It happens at the 6 second mark in the video. Very confusing!
Looking at the AOA on rotation, he may have been well below blue line and perhaps lost power on the port engine.
Jim K, looks like an insect.
This looks exactly like what Roger suggested: an attempt to make an aggressive turn to buzz the crowd at too low an energy state to support the turn.
May not be the case here, but decades ago I watched a C310 do the exact same thing on its first flight out of the paint shop. The ailerons had been hooked up in reverse and it was not picked up on the preflight.
Abnormally high AOA after rotation, and the woman who can be heard saying something like “el quire impresionarlos” (he wants to impress them) makes me think the pilot is trying to get off the ground quickly to do something for the observers, maybe fly over or close to the crowd, or just maneuver in an abnormal way.