> Observe, orient: Jet still in the clouds, about 750 feet above ground, still in his control, descending glide path, about 800 feet per minute
Then brokenness again
> About 30 seconds had passed.
By then he might have been gliding halfway towards terrain.
> He felt the nose of the aircraft tilt upward. He felt a falling sensation.
Subtext is that this feels like stalling with only a few hundred feet and a few seconds left. There's no room to recover control surface.
There's only so much you can read in so little time with fallback instruments. Airspeed means squat, climb rate can be unreliable.
> Forty-one seconds.
Next loop is going to be either nothing happened or ground contact. What to you do.