Either that, or the very similar state of settling with power, where your vertical velocity is too large for the power reserve available to overcome. In plain people language, you come in too steep, sinking too fast.
It might have well been a compound of both issues, or the ground effect doing strange and unexpected things due to those walls leading to the above described phenomenon.
Either way, the pilot was most likely not flying very conservatively, putting him right up on the edge of the envelope. And that bit him in the ass. C’est la vie. It was not a situation to make a slow, precise and easy landing like you’re shoehorning in the singer to a stadium show.
