Originally Posted by Graybeard
There must have been near zero horizontal velocity when the plane hit.
I'm not so sure. Unless it was a fluke, the ship hit the water with 5° of bank, which indicates to me that the crew had roll control ie semi-effective ailerons. Had it been going straight down, no useable flow over the ailerons would have existed and it probably would have been falling like a leaf or tumbling.
100kt down and 107 G/S means it was "flying" at 140KIAS, albeit at 60° AoA.