[IndyCobra]

The only slack i would cut him is that the controllers often ask you to do maneuvers close to the ground on approach that you wouldn't normally do. Three years ago, a couple behind me in the approach to Airventure stall/spinned it into the ground on the approach apron because the controller asked them to keep it in close and make the turn to final over the end of the runway. Two killed just like that.

I wouldn't be surprised, especially since he was landing on 18, that he had to make a very close-in turn to final, overshot the centerline and steepened his bank angle, stalled and recovered but had lost too much energy and pancaked it in. I know he shouldn't have allowed himself to do it as he is ultimately the PIC, but......I can see how it happened. It happens every year up there.