A preliminary report on the recent Florida CAPS deployment, in
IMC, has been published. Please note that this is a preliminary
report and does not constitute the final decision as to the causes
leading up to this accident... which, thankfully, harmed no
one.
Regardless of what broke/malfunctioned or not, the one over-riding
conclusion we can make at this time is that the pilot made a good
decision in realizing that he did not know exactly what was
happening to his airplane and resorting to the one solution that he
had confidence in to avoid a catastrophic accident.