I found this bit interesting: Having heard a few simulated EFATO's myself that is exactly what people on the ground will hear. It's usually a double bang, & it does sounds like backfiring. But as for hearing a strange noise after the flight, I have no explanation.

DF.

When the aircraft turned away from me, ...it was then a glider.
And all glider pilots had banged into their noggins when learning, ...when slow, stuff the nose down BEFORE you make the turn.
Maybe what I saw wasnt a turn at all. The right wing lost it....and it was all downhill from there. Vale ! them 2
And there was space ahead for a crash landing.

Angel Aircraft Corp, model 44.
A stunning success! aircraft serial numbers: 1 - 3 factory test aircraft.
Serial number 4 and the only one ever sold! now destroyed!

Bit of a suposition mark on that frame.! I could modify that if I knew how. Certainly didnt do a climbing turn to that height.
Bring everything down to the top of the V and move it back down the runway some 200 mtrs... to the east.
.Thus take off and turn out of that frame anyhow.

Prelim report not giving much away. Going off eyewitness reports.

https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications...r/ao-2019-072/

I find this a bit strange. 28 Takeoff and going towards the training area, is a upwind departure with a left turn toward the training area a few miles after takeoff. Why conduct a low level right hand turn? I mean there is power lines on crosswind. I don't really see any real need for a field departure off the crosswind circuit with a abundance of hazards vs a straight out departure with little in the way off hazards (well no tall power towers anyway). It appears they did this again on the touch and go fatal circuit. A low level right hand turn will line you up with that road where they ended up, if under twin power.

How often is 28 used? Every time I pass overhead inbound to Cairns on a heavy, it is always 10. Which is why we listen in as the steps are fairly close.

All very interesting, But who was flying the aeroplane and who was attending to "the problem/s" which it obviously had.
One or the other or both ... not payng attention to the airspeed.. and the rest is very sad history..
That two very experience twin pilots could do arrive at such a bum result to it all confounds me..
Still on the runway after 16oo ft behind and only 200yds left, why not chop the power and jump on the brakes.
So the arrestor barrier of a fence before the road bangs up the aircraft,,, so what.?
Can replace an aircraft with another (better) one, but not people.

PoJo...the prevailing winds are thru the NE to SE-S quadrant...so runway 10 has the most usage,
Occasionaly in winter there may be the odd day of SW from a southern cold front push.
During the Wet season winds SW thru N..so you can use either way with N. With storms about like as now wind could be any old which way
28 got some use today,