Couple of questions from an SLF:
Question #1: Does accident craft have only a 2 hour CVR? If so, might lose everything said/done prior to and during first approach and GA, which potentially would have shed additional light on what thinking, etc.
Question # 2: After FZ981 reported were going around, Tower responded with "contact approach 121.2". Crew said "121.2, bye bye".
Any thoughts on when FZ981 (probably) would have made that frequency change?
I realize frequency changes are a routine task, but I ask that question partly because of this comment on the thread:
We were 4 or 5 seconds from being upside down at 2,000'. And I was heads down with a frequency change. (emphasis added)
Which makes me wonder if PM on FZ981 (who I presume is making frequency change) may briefly have been distracted by it about the same time as a possibly excessive pitchup on GA and/or a somatogravic illusion or whatever may have transpired there. When things suddenly go bad, might that have added a critical hole to the swiss cheese (or removed a critical slice, however one cares to view it)?