Originally Posted by
The Old Fat One
could easily come up with several obvious scenarios as to how the aircraft came to the fate it did - given the circumstances we already know.
Since the Ju52 is a slow bird, it takes more than a simple stall to wind down in an arrow like descending crash. Normally you and especial the two experienced pilots would have recovered the bird within 500 to 1000 feet even from a power-on or power-off stall. And it did not crash in a flat spin. There is reason to believe that they had those altitude margin. So there is more to the story which hopefully will come to light in due time.