How is REACH and duty time one way pressure  

so go up and turn around like the other guy. A 10,000 hour "certified ATP captain" should be able to figure that one out. How many times are you going to keep trotting this one out. "Look what you made me do..."

Probable Cause and Findings
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot's improper in-flight planning and decision to continue flight under visual flight rules into deteriorating weather conditions, which resulted in an inadvertent in-flight encounter with instrument meteorological conditions and a collision with rising terrain while attempting to reverse course.