ghinson said:It continued to do so regardless of what I did with the stick. It seemed like I was controlling speed, but not direction.
Really sorry to hear about you loss. It's a sober reminder to all of us of what can happen :-(
My immediate reaction when I read that line was that somehow the P2 had jumped into IOC Home or Course lock... If one of those had been activated then what you expected to happen on the sticks wouldn't translate into the flight... add in a little bit of panic on your part (obviously completly understandable under the circumstances) and it certainly could appear to be out of control. Was it configured in NAZAM or Phantom mode? Is there any chance this could have been the case?
The only other thing that may have been an issue was when you flew near the boat. Could it have been some radio transmission from maybe or did the boat have a Maritime Radar? Flying close to any radiation source has caused this to happen to others.