Fatal stall of the Grumman G-73 Mallard

Agreed that it was entirely avoidable. However, please note that the aircraft was intending a low pass along a defined display line, it was not attempting to alight. It was constrained by an “avoid” box of airspace. Thus your comments aren’t actually applicable to the facts. No carriage of passengers was permitted, yet the pilot had his girlfriend as a passenger and had invited others, who declined the invitation as they understood the performance implications of the weather of the day. In effect, the pilot made multiple mistakes in each pass he attempted, but persisted until he managed to kill himself with his last ad hoc attempt, which was unrehearsed and used different lines of approach and departure to the briefed actions. Very sad.

An entirely preventable accident which is difficult to watch as the impending accident sequence progresses. Considering that there was a wide body of water to land on, there was no reason to attempt such a steep base to final turn from the downwind at such a slow speed in a twin engine, which, as far as I know, does not have counter-rotating props. It proves that the laws of physics and the principles of aerodynamics are absolute and unforgiving.