I doubt that is true Hebog, and if it were the case that some technical issue arose at the beginning of a low level aerobatic manouever then surely, without question, the
only thing is to abandon the manouever.
We're not talking about some
'Galloping Ghost' type failure that blacked out the pilot.
Perhaps an on-the-ball FDD might have spotted it going wrong and called 'Display end' before the outcome became inevitable. Perhaps not.
So, from the information available to me:
It seems to me that all of these factors contributed to AH not making that critical top gate, without which the
default action should have been 'No-Go', not 'Go'. Regardless of anything else the one critical parameter he should have been actively looking for, and should have recognised that he had missed, was the top gate, height and speed, otherwise recover.