Russian An-26 Military Plane Falls In Syria...
very sad, its quite obvious that he has stalled the airplane and rather than put the nose down, and throttle up, he continues to pull back on the stick, we see a departure to the right and loss of directional control...
So it is an "approach stall", had the engines been developing full power, the loss of directional control would have been more pronounced, so the engines are likely at "flight idle", and rather than lower the nose and recover the aircraft,,, he's doing what comes naturally that close to the ground, and pulling back on the yoke...
I hate to judge a dead brother, but its clearly very poor "airmanship",,, we see Russia's best of the best performing at airshows and putting T-50's and Su-35's to the acid test, well outside the limits of mere mortals.. but better to land short with the aircraft under control, than to depart the aircraft and develop a high rate of sink, and descend uncontrolled into the ground....
So "throttles to the wall", stick forward and fly out of this "nightmare",,, its really not hard, but when you don't want to go around, or maybe can't??? (engine or fuel issue),,,, if you lose one or both engines on short final, and you're already "behind the power curve", stick forward, even if you land short...
if he had two turning, then there's just no excuse,,, airspeed is obviously decaying as the video progresses