Originally Posted by
sgrd0q
For those of you who have looked at the video in detail and frame by frame - did the gear collapse first (the most likely scenario given the hard landing on the upwind gear with perhaps some side load) or did the wing hit the ground first, causing it to twist and break off? And can you tell if they landed on the centerline? Could they have landed on the right and hit a snowbank? Could they have landed on the left (more likely as the crosswind was from right) and messed up trying to correct?
Gear first. They landed slightly right wing low as you would expect in a right crosswind. Looks like the right main hit first, collapsed, the right wing began to separate, and the right roll began as the left wing was still attached at that point.
No, cannot tell if they landed on centerline or not. Cannot tell if they hit a snowbank. However, I suspect they landed on centerline and did not hit a snowbank (until later) because the video footage can 100% be explained by the hardness of the landing and the gear collapsing.