It seems that take off flap may not have been set and the right hand engine in auto-feather, but despite automated warnings to this effect, a query from the co-pilot as to whether the take off should be aborted, no V1 or Vr calls and a warning from the co-pilot to take it gently, the Captain continued the take off and the stall warning sounded less than 10 seconds after take-off.
31 seconds after the stall warning was heard, the aircraft impacted the
ground in a nose down near 90 degree right bank.
The evidence initially appears quite damning, but I'll leave you to draw your
own conclusions about serviceability and CRM issues on this fatal flight.
Take off configuration. I seem to recall a 727 at DFW that tried to take off with the wrong configuration, and it ended in tears over 25 years ago. I suppose that some errors, if not learned from, remain fatal.
