A Preliminary is pretty much just a verification of the initial accident report and factual evidence immediately available, per forms 6120.19 and 6120.4. This one is par for the course (the full text of the NTSB Preliminary is available using the PDF link in the AvWeb article.
Sounds like a VMC accident, very sad.
Over-loaded/tail-heavy? Hard low-altitude bank to downwind (heading 10 degrees, wind 180 degrees).
Hard to cheat fate.
Well, yea; it said that “it turned and crashed”. That’s not a preliminary report, that’s just regurgitating that it was VFR and corroborating that there was a new smoking hole at the airport.
WHY NOT MENTION THE STRUCTURAL FAILURE that the plane suffered 3 years ago? The very same thing with the very same airplane doing the very same kind of flying(but it happened at altitude an all survived). The 1967 plane was documented to have been over-stressed and to recently needing to replace those the elevators that were lost in-flight…