On 2006-03-30, Mike Granby wrote:
Someone elsewhere suggested that the gust lock might have been in
place, as you don't see the ailerons moving.

Unlikely. The standard Cessna gust lock locks the elevators in an almost
full nose-down position - it's improbable he'd have been able to raise
the nose at all. It just looks like a classic insufficient
airspeed/mush/stall accident.

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