Originally Posted by
rgburrill
May not have been pilot error. I noticed one gear went up but the other one didn't. That could have drug the power level quite low to where the receiver just couldn't control the servos properly.
The gear never retracted, not sure what you saw but the doors open on that model before the gear retract.
Hard to say for sure without knowing the pilot background but he took off too early, dumped lift in a near stall with full speed flap servos, and it snapped over.
If I had to guess I'd say someone was spending too much time developing bad habits by yanking foamies around and tried to fly a heavy, built-up warbird that way and it bit him in the toosh.