“At 400 mph the pilot could keep.the nose up”
Not if the controls (and comms) had been knocked out. The aircraft had maint on the forward landing gear door. My idea is that this door failed and took out some of the electronics located in that part of the a/c and left the plane in a nose-down attitude.
18 minutes of descent. I don’t have my protractor handy but it was not a very steep angle and the pieces are so small.
I don’t trust anyone to say the truth anymore so I’ll just make it up myself.