A valid question Charlie Ray and one that needs to be explored. Any vessel can take on water under the right set of conditions. A better question is how does it drain out. On the face of it we are presented with enough information that makes it likely to draw a conclusion as to what happened here, but there are elements of it that don't add up.
We appear to have a mindset where he believed for what ever reason I'm going to crash and there's not a thing I can do about it for at least 5 of those 9 seconds.
The key is to find what created that mindset.