Forgive a little thread drift. I just chanced upon a video of a float plane crashing on take-off due to a wing drop stall.
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/vid...g-off-65157413
I realize that I have seen several videos showing similar crash on take-off, they seem to result from loss of power on take-off, but then no evidence of any attempt to lower the nose and deal with the issue. That float plane for example seemed to maintain a high AoA until it fell from the sky with one wing down. It looks like he had an entire lake to put it back down on but he didn't. If my interpretation is right, any thoughts on why this happens ? Does the pilot just freeze ? Or is there actually no time/authority to get the nose down at a critical point?