GOULI
I agree that having an excess of speed over the top would have given AH increased options to abort the bent loop. I.e. more lateral control to roll out without the same risk of an inverted departure....
Too slow and the radius of the last quarter increases and one is left with no control other than to mush into the ground which is what sadly happened.
The only thing that might have saved the situation might have been to jettison the 100 gal droppies
which still contained fuel. But they would have landed on the innocent victims in much the same location as where the Ac crashed.....
MB