Considering the StrechedBanger was made from the 70's through to around 2017, with thousands made, and an enormous amount of flight hours, it is a proven platform.
There is no indication what actually happened nor the root cause. It is not used for scheduled passenger services, nor can it carry hundreds of people, which authorities tend to treat with much greater caution.
You could speculate that one of the mounts failed, as was made further up in this discussion.
If that were the case, there have been 3 previous accidents, all which survived, two landed in one piece, one rolled over, and were ultimately attributed to inadequate maintenance.
They all involved partial loss of control, and reports of the nose pitching up and a roll to the left.
On such a mature type, It is highly unlikely that this an inherent flaw, or something previously undiscovered.
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