Originally Posted by
RoyHudd
Sadly this looks likely to be a sudden and deliberate act.
Sadly there aren't too many other realistic scenarios. Still the Questions is: Germanwings or hefty spatial disorientation. The fact that they were IMC, entering turbulence and have stopped the descent very shortly before (which will create somatogravic illusions of climbing) plus the fact that they started to try and recover once visual with the ground makes me tend more to the latter scenario. Still a very sobering scenario.