ORIGINAL: highhorse
With all deference to Ali, who is certainly knowledgable and talented beyond a level that most of us could even dream of:
This was, IMO, NOT a stalled airplane. Look at all of that barrel/spiral. BOTH wings were still ''flying'' or the flight path would have not spiraled.
I'm new to jets, been flying prop planes some 7 years but jets only a little more than a year. My instructor, Rob Lynch, who is working to make me a respectable jet pilot very early on had me take my Electra up high and point the nose down. On the way down he said pull back on the elevator, hard so I did. Wow! I wasn't expecting it, I had never seen it but bam, there it was, high speed stall to the heavy/weak side, happened in an instant and resulted in the same death spiral as the video. Even myself, watching this video for the first time, recognized it, it was that last tug of the elevator, probably becasue the pilot feared too low of an altitide to complete the loop, clear as day...
Jack