Like I wrote earlier, I have doubts about any recovery effort because things happen fast on a 240kt approach, and there was work to do, probably a lot at this point. To me the flight path and the ROD point towards a loss of control. I admit that the shallow angle of the crash is puzzling. However, the spread of the debris hints that the plane may have been upside down on impact.
The wind part I find an interesting remark because it would have had the potential to exacerbate an aerodynamic problem, be it icing, stall speeds of the wing or the tailplane. On the ther hand their speed was quite high for an approach 8NM before the threshold and they were still in clean config.
Last edited by jbodenr; 13th Mar 2018 at 10:48.