DAPT
A call stating TR failure,Engine out, Controls locked would provide a little more information as to the cause.
chopjock
I don't think anyone is suggesting get a Mayday call out at the expense of failing to aviate. However if time permits, then some information can be useful
Information? Useful?
Useful to whom? The Pprune pontificators perhaps.
If you are seriously suggesting the instantaneous assessment of the pilot (who may quite possibly not even
KNOW why he is going down!) would be used as a 'guide' by the AAIB, I'm afraid you need to acqaint yourself with their work a little more.
In this particular case a 'Mayday' call by the pilot, even with a guess as to a possible cause, would probably have been worse than useless.