"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
news:1120753627.1593ded429ac4976c51641c1b0c3388f@t eranews...
Many, many IFR pilots have never flown an approach to low IMC conditions.
In fact I would guess this is true of the majority of single-engine piston
IFR pilots and certainly it is true of many pilots from the Southwest.
Doing a missed approach in low IMC conditions is very different from an
emotional or mental perspective than doing so under the hood. This is
pure speculation, but if indeed this was the pilot's first-ever missed
approach in low IMC then that alone could explain what happened.

I wish the NTSB report had said analyzed that possibility. (They apparently
had the pilot's logbook.)

--Gary