Maybe some of you super-heroes could've pulled off that save (depending on at what point you realized it was all going pear-shaped). But for the rest of us mere mortal pilots, I think it would've been a real - and probably unsuccessful - challenge to get the thing wings-level and climbing before smashing into something solid...like Earth
Doesn't require a super hero, it just requires a pilot that is instrument trained and who is current, Ara had the first but not the latter, so the result is not surprising. Any number of folk posting here could have extricated themselves from the situation he faced in complete safety, because they have the requisite skills and recency, though that is not to say they too have the ability to turn a silk purse into a pigs ear.
It's interesting that the NTSB findings in the abstract says,
None of the following safety issues were identified for the accident flight: (1) pilot qualification deficiencies
I'd have thought some reference might have been made to his lack of IMC recency though he had a rating, could have saved the day perhaps.
https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Doc...G-abstract.pdf