[jaxmagicman]

Originally Posted by dsvitak

At 150 miles per hour, this is 2 and a half miles per minute, or roughly 13 thousand feet in 60 seconds, or 220 feet per second. Add a half second reaction time, and your moving/reacting at about a football field every second. This doesn't work well when you are flying in dense fog/clouds.

I agree. I'm not investigating the crash and this is all items I found searching the web, but it looks like the pilot made a mistake and thought he could handle the weather. And instead of turning around he went into a fog blind.