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337 Crash
Certainly an unfortunate incident and, as you say, not very likely to be simple pilot error given the experience of the pilot. As a totally "green" skymaster pilot trainee, I can remember an incident which made an impression on me. I failed to reset the trim to the takeoff range. Instead, it was set near the nose-up limit from a previous landing. My CFI didn't say a word. A few seconds after takeoff, as the aircraft gathered speed, the combination of my normal "slight" backpressure and the noze up trim pitched us up rather dramatically. It took my brain a second or two to process what was hapenning, and airspeed decayed rather quickly. By the time I started exerting strong forward pressure on the yoke to counteract the trim, we were closer to a stall than I care to be that close to the ground. My CFI, nonplussed, but with his hands hovering about an inch from the yoke, remarked dryly, "don't forget to set the trim. This isn't a 172." You can bet I haven't forgotten since.
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