"Ron Lee" wrote in message
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We don't know what mistake was made here.

Sure we do. They took off from a runway that was too short for their
aircraft.

That is only the "final" and most obvious mistake. It doesn't answer the
question of WHY that mistake was made.

And I put "final" in quotes because if you want to get technical about it,
the actual final mistake was crashing the airplane. In a lot of aircraft
accidents, the final mistake is crashing the airplane. But thankfully, the
NTSB goes a little farther in their investigations than saying "probable
cause: the airplane struck the ground in a manner inconsistent with a
survivable landing".

Pete