Originally Posted by
simon001
..Why did he turn?.
I can virtually guarantee he turned left in order to maintain visual contact with the 101 out his pilot door window, and he was hand flying at the time. He just kept turning left when he lost sight of the ground. Nothing wrong with the instrumentation at all. His intention was to press on to destination. If he intended to discontinue to destination he would have done a right turn, maintaining visual reference with the 101 out the right side pilot door window as he did the 180 turn. Bet my house on it.