(February 4, 2015 at 4:00 pm)JuliaL Wrote: The following speculation is based on nothing other than the dashboard video.
At the very beginning of the video the plane can be seen in a nose high but fairly wings level position over the buildings in the upper left corner.
As the video progresses, the plane rolls ~90 degrees left and slips into the bridge then into the river valley. Stall/spin accidents commonly occur when the pilot tries to stretch a glide by lifting the nose. What I saw was consistent with this pilot trying to land in the river, like Sullenberger on the Hudson, and held the nose too high too long, stalled and fell in.
Experts were saying their best guess was one engine had trouble and the working engine will force the plane to dip to the weaker or no working engine, it is manageable but you need enough airspeed, stalls are nothing more than not having enough wind speed over the wing. The pilot made a split second decision to try to ditch the plane where he have the least damage.
