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A couple report say there was not a black boxVery good explanation. I just learned about the late climbout along the final moments of his flight. In fact the pilot's apparent deliberate climb while flying southwest toward the 101 does bring into question his intention unless they discover for sure that the visibility had suddenly gone to zero at a critically low altitude. His experience with that area and his route to Thousand Oaks would have told him that he had to maintain certain altitude minimums in the area where he was flying and knew that he would have been safer to climb rather than to try to get below the scud if the ceiling was rapidly dropping.
A rapid (but not necessarily critical) descent in the final seconds of the flight may have indeed been a case of spatial disorientation or possibly 'chasing' a faulty reading on an instrument. Either way, unless they can find some mechanical reason for the descent, it may go on record as a CFIT accident. Controlled Flight Into Terrain. I haven't heard yet as to whether there was any sort of data recording equipment on board that S-76. That would certain help to determine if it was a mechanical issue.