Originally Posted by
KRviator
I wouldn't.
A reasonably-trimmed aircraft - or even something that's not that well trimmed, doesn't pitch 30* nose down and accelerate beyond Vne in the absence of an external (pilot/CG shift/structural failure) input. It may change it's flight path slightly to hunt down it's desired 'trimmed-to' airspeed, no argument there, but not that much.
The data at the time had the discussion focused around some form of serious structural failure. I think that was warranted given some of the numbers. They have now sort of ruled that out, no abnormalities found. So what are the other options? It’s essentially just nose down full power into the hills.
It’s hard to see an eager young lad like this drive it into the ground on purpose. I understand we do not know the ins and out of this person’s life. This wasn’t the first time he had been solo.
However it’s quite a task trying to work out how he ended up in that situation with the investigators saying all systems seemed ok.