I don't think bad fuel would have caused the plane to go into a dive and already burst into flames. If it were bad fuel, the engine might have stalled. But this looks like the engine might have exploded (or something in the aircraft exploded). The dive was probably from a loss of flight control (my guess is from the vertical stabilizer being destroyed from the explosion), and the plane's glow in witness videos suggest that something on the plane was fully engulfed.
My only issue is that if it were a flameout, it wouldn't be on fire as it crashed. I think some kind of an explosion would be the only way to explain the fire on the outside of the aircraft.
Uncontained engine failure, either a fan blade or a disc. Tears the cowling off, cowling hits the t-tail cuz the climbout means they're at a high AOA, and suddenly they're nose heavy in a power dive.
Literally nothing they could do no matter how much altitude they had.
Mexican owned (?) medical plane.
Could have been bad fuel
I don't think bad fuel would have caused the plane to go into a dive and already burst into flames. If it were bad fuel, the engine might have stalled. But this looks like the engine might have exploded (or something in the aircraft exploded). The dive was probably from a loss of flight control (my guess is from the vertical stabilizer being destroyed from the explosion), and the plane's glow in witness videos suggest that something on the plane was fully engulfed.
Somebody else speculated a flameout leading to an unrecoverable stall. It had just taken off and what we're seeing is the end of the parabola.
My only issue is that if it were a flameout, it wouldn't be on fire as it crashed. I think some kind of an explosion would be the only way to explain the fire on the outside of the aircraft.
That's basically what I'm suspecting.
Uncontained engine failure, either a fan blade or a disc. Tears the cowling off, cowling hits the t-tail cuz the climbout means they're at a high AOA, and suddenly they're nose heavy in a power dive.
Literally nothing they could do no matter how much altitude they had.
That's my expectation as well. The only good news is that they were so low it would have been quick. Fuckin' sad.