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Originally Posted by kbecker
I just watched a youtube video of the accident aircraft, may have been taken on the day of the accident.
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I saw it too. I thought to myself, what are the chances that some random airplane groupie would post a video of this airplane the same day it crashed?
I don't know if the video was new or old, but the belly was black from either leaking oil or, more likely, leaking hydraulic fluid.
I think his system was low on fluid. He was 61, so its possible the stress of the situation caused him to have a stroke or coronary event. This would explain the lack of a stall recovery. We may never know.
Also, the pilot requested 2500' when the controller asked him what he wanted after reporting the gear issue. According to the ADS-B tracking, he never initiated a climb from 2000'. Just another data point to consider.