Tragic. I'm reflecting today on the 2 times I've gone IMC inadvertently.
Once I was trying to get under it about 5000' and before I knew it I was in a spiral, popped out the base atleast 4000' AGL and straightened up. (120 hours total). PPL IMC training didn't assist, I don't remember thinking jump on the clocks. Startle and panic.
2nd time (700 hours TT?) I should have known better. West of CS post skydive jump, fuel caused me to push on and find a gap. There was absolutely no way (employment and ego) I could have gone to Mareeba which was wide open. Dumb hey. There's a missing link in all of this, it's all great having videos on the CASA website with a CFI keeping their options open, down a valley doing shoulder checks on their escape route but it ain't real world, especially in commercial ops (which I suspect this wasn't).