Originally Posted by
ClippedCub
Agree L6. But to them dropping the gear would be to gain some control and not for a ditching. I can't imagine these 3 souls would have just ridden it down without reconfiguring. We don't know the sequence yet, maybe they spun, slung the engine/s, were able to recover somewhat, and couldn't unstall because of an aft cg of the reduced configuration. Could we tell if the engines departed through the boxes.
Will we ever know?, I have my doubts.