My point being, it sounds like his mate had landed prior, phoned him up and cautiously said not to land. Pilot continues on and circles overhead waiting for his mate to take off again. We’ve all done that before haven’t we? Continues to fly overhead, probably looking at the ground with only 15-20 degrees angle of bank.
Lack of some concentration and the speed gets a bit low and down he goes down in the turn.
He wasn’t hitting a power line at the back of the pub at Bourke doing 140 knots at 30 feet....
I used to own a Libety XL2, same aircraft exactly and it runs a very thin wing profile that takes a solid amount of airspeed to get it flying. When it lets go, it doesn’t mess about and it drops hard onto the runway at the stall.