Does anyone know what the words "PROBABLE CAUSE" mean? Even the NTSB uses it in all of their reports. Sure it could have a servo, linkage, bird strike, alien attack, sun spots.....We have a dirty, heavy airplane doing a loop that suddenly rolls and rotates to the ground at the point in the maneuver where the wing loading and angle of attack is probably peaking and pilot's attention is being distracted by a gear problem. Do you think he may have been pulling a little extra at that point to try and secure what he though was a gear problem? HELLO!!!!

George

P.S. And to the pilot's credit, he was probably burning smoke in order to off-load weight for what he though might be a gear failure on landing. I bet under the same circumstances, a lot of us would have done everything the same way and maybe with the same outcome.