By all accounts, there is nothing out of the ordinary about the crew or the airplane. Both pilots had accumulated over 36,000 hours of flying - so experience isn't an issue. Lead pilot was also an airplane mechanic, and the other was an instructor and flight engineer - so quite the talented aircrew.
Engines 1,2, and 3 had 0 hours of operation since overhaul, while engine 4 had over 800 hours since last revision. I'm sure that is where they'll focus. It also looks like flaps were retracted on landing - not sure if that was an issue though it was tough to determine the exact status as the cabin and majority of the wings were destroyed by the post-crash fire. No concerns over fuel either.
Still sad about the loss of life and of the beautiful warbird.
If I read it correctly, number four was feathered and number three was somewhere between feathered and low pitch. That could have increased drag to a point that they couldn’t hold the 500’ agl that they had and drifted down until initial contact with the approach lights 1,000’ from the runway, increasing drag/airspeed decay more until touchdown 500’ from the runway. The question is what caused the right hand drift to final impact,.......blown tire, collapsed gear, wing drop at touchdown, etc, etc?.......So many questions.
It would be interesting to see what the throttle quadrant looked like at the end. They certainly didn’t have altitude and time to deal with what caused the initial engine problem.