You guys need to see the video.
Hight pitch angle. Clear the pilot was working the rudders, veers left, then right wing slalls. Instead of flipping over right, the plane goes over and recovers wings level. This is important.
Best I can tell this is classic departure stall and start of a recovery with the caveat that the only way they could have gotten the wings flying again, was by the addition of power.
That belies that the aircraft departed under derate power, when the wing stalled, training took over, they firewalled it, got wings level, not enough altitude and airspeed to recover, pancake landing.
What causes the stall, high AOA/Pitch might have been a loadshift, like Dallas an A/S malfunction with pilots flying the numbers and not cross checking visuals. Ponder also that the gear was still down, which belies a possible flap/slat retraction instead of a gear retraction, easily putting the aircraft into a stall if departing high, hot, heavy, and SOP there as fast climb to mitigate fire from the ground.
What ever the case, I can almost guarantee that power was applied AFTER the wing stall.
Good point that radio call under those conditions would be last thing anyone would do, but ponder they might have 'worked' this problem for a while that maybe the copilot made the call.
Last edited by Teldorserious; 3rd May 2013 at 17:49.