In this case I am guessing weight distribution/balance...
Those are low-power aircraft to fit into the "light sport" aircraft category, meaning it's underpowered as shit. That combined with the waves and the obviously long takeoff roll meant they didn't have enough altitude and when they got closer to the objects, they obviously pulled up harder to try and clear, which induced the stalling condition, although it didn't enter a spin, more a lazy loss of altitude, but you see erratic behavior prior, which is the airplane wing/surfaces likely stalling. They may have gotten themselves into a spot that they couldn't get out of with a floatplane. That isn't hard to do, you can stop real fast due to the drag of water, but overcoming that for takeoff is the polar opposite, evidenced by the long long takeoff roll. Being in an underpowered type only makes that worse. Should have assessed the available takeoff distance in the air by timing it out, but too late now. Also strange that they didn't dive for the deck and just stay a few feet above the water. There's no real need to climb out right away when you are over water.Report: Plane over weight limit, attempted multiple takeoffs before crash last July
NTSB: The crash was likely caused by the plane being overweight, as well as the pilot's decision to continue attempting takeoff after two failed trieswww.detroitnews.com
That's what I said.
There's not a whole lot you can F-up in these types of aircraft, meaning that there's no real cargo space and it doesn't sound like they were carrying cargo. You put heavier people in the seats and it'll be more nose heavy, but more airspeed (like after takeoff) fixes that. It wouldn't be realistic for it to be tail-heavy, it would have never gotten on a plane (like a boat) to begin with. You can overload them with blubber people, but then you have a nose-heavy situation where the main obstacle is getting the thing to start rotating and lifting off. If you can do that, you are usually ok due to the increasing speed which only increases control effectiveness from liftoff. Nose heavy is worst on landing, since as you slow down the nose pitches down and you can't keep it from doing so.
So you say.
You don't say?So you say.
Oh I say old chap!
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