Originally Posted by
manamale
It sounds to be like he went inadvertent IMC, initiated climb, started a left turn either intentionally or not, became spatially disorientated and was unable to recover. We are trained to recover from usual attitudes by rolling wings level but if we have put ourselves into that situation hard to say whether we would be able to fly ourselves out of it.
If this is the case we need to question why he did not couple up once he became disorientate or as soon as he was in the soup. Does the 76 have a go-around button? Are any of ye guys trained to couple up as a last resort for unusual attitude recovery?
Shouldn't that be the first resort in those conditions if you're in IFR conditions? You certainly can't hand bomb it single IFR in a commercial operation. Even if they had the cert ops spec tor whatever, they had to have a functioning autopilot.