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Camera showed him fully inverted and very nose down when he struck the trees, so obviously an uncontrolled rolling moment rapidly ensued as a result of his maneuvering to align his aircraft with the intended runway.

Too close to the landing g runway while circling to land invites yanking and banking and exceeding critical angle of attack resulting in a typical base to final stall spin scenario, while a wider more appropriate stabilized descent to a landing is less likely to end up that way.

Crashing was likely the result of the flying pilot in the situation of being pressured to get down, and going below minimum descent altitude while too close to the landing runway, thus being boxed in by lower than minimum visibility in smoke conditions and the terrain, while yanking and banking...