rideforever:
Can we not simply sum up all the events and issues to one thing; that a dangerous manoeuvre took place directly above the main road.
Well you didn't put in a question mark, but you seem to be asking a question, and my answer is: No, because that isn't what happened.
If the photos with overlayed flight-paths are to be believed, he did the manoeuvre(s) over fields, and should have just crossed the road straight-and-level, or perhaps in a slight descent. Things went wrong resulting in not enough energy to do the latter, with the result that we know. Saying (as a lot of people have) that he was doing aeros over the road seem to be wrong, from all I've seen.
Bear in mind that descending over that road is what every aircraft landing on 20 (I think!) will do.
Any attempt to "solve" it this side of the investigation with: "Pilot error, end of" will be a grave injustice to all concerned.
- Howard