Originally Posted by
henra
That was my impression as well. The turn initially could indeed very well have been intentional (the horn starts to sound only later quite a bit into the turn) upon realising that on the other side of the ridge the big grey fog of death was waiting. Had he continued straight ahead, ground reference would probably have been lost 1 or 2 seconds later. With surely even way worse consequences. In that regard I consider this guy (and his Pax) lucky.
I agree - barrelling in inverted at high speed, a few hundred feet above the canopy, would be a lot worse than what happened.