Originally Posted by
royled11
Looking at the photos, the aircraft still has some flaps down; this suggests the pilots had little time to recover from what occurred.
I don't know what takeoff profile this operator used, but generally in transport category aircraft flaps are retracted upon reaching a certain altitude. Generally this altitude is high enough that it would be really difficult to climb to that altitude, retract the flaps, then crash the airplane, all within a mile of the runway. My point being that I think you're trying to read too much into this. Flaps still extended is what I'd expect in this case. I would consider it unusual for an aircraft which crashed within a mile of the runway to have flaps retracted.