Maybe as a F/O the newly promoted Captain had flown into such weather as a F/O and was pressurised to try the same as a Captain. Don't know never will unfortunately..
Hopefully we will - a decent accident investigation will dig that up.
this crossair crash -
Crossair Flight 3597 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - (which was also CFIT caused by going below minimums) was featured on discovery channel in air crash investigation recently and they dug up the captains history right back to initial flight training school - and it wasn't pretty.
The point being that, that sort of stuff is exactly what they look to dig up.