Quote Originally Posted by KestrelBike View Post
Huh. So they're at ~15,000ft, start getting their ass kicked by the storm, go to climb, turbulence meets stall speed and into the briny deep they go?
They were at 32,000 wanting to climb to 38,000' and deviate for weather. Looking at the radar for that area there were some serious cells/thunderstorms. They could have run into severe icing, severe turbulence and stalled it. They could have got huge hail possibly damaging or destroying the aircraft.

I will venture to say this one was weather related somehow.