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Originally Posted by TylerH860
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Simple. Loss of lift. Loss of lift occurs when the air moving under the air foils (wings) yield less than what the airframe needs to stay airborne, given it's speed and pitch. Once you lose (control) of a big, fat 'n heavy plane like that at low speed/low altitude, (however you do it) with no altitude to recover - it crash, go BOOM! Looks like they stalled it on ascent, with too much attitude and pitch. Why the aircraft stalled? Who knows. It does look as if the pilot was attempting to recover, but he ran out of altitude.