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Old 13th Feb 2018, 10:48
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The sudden decent may be causal rather than the result of a failure.

Not VFR I gather, but some stimulus other than ATC. For example, suddenly/instinctively pushing against the autopilot only to find pitch control was far from normal after that.
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