bearfoil
sadly, you are correct I think. IMHO this accident will go down, correctly, to that much malgned term 'pilot error'.
I've been in a MoFo CB and it's not pretty. But hey, although my instruments werre working, I couldn't read them!
Sitting here, my brane 'says, pole the plane on its attitude and leave the throttles alone'- suck it up!
WTF would you climb? Fear?