The investigation report identified a two-part root cause of the accident: "Lack of adequate analysis methods led to an inaccurate risk assessment of the effects of configuration changes leading to an inappropriate decision to fly an aircraft configuration highly sensitive to disturbances."
Izvještaj istrage je identificirao dva glavna uzroka neseće: "Nedostatak odgovarajućih metoda analize doveo je do netočne procjene rizika efekata promjene konfiguracije, što je dovelo do pogrešne odluke o polijetanju letjelice visoko osjetljive na poremećaje."