Addendum to my previous comment: As someone else pointed out the GCAS had already rolled him right-side up as well.
Without that he would have taken an extra second or two to reorient himself and take appropriate action.
That delay, plus what I wrote above would make it a certainty in my mind that he would have had an unscheduled plane to ground rendezvous without the Auto-GCAS.
Without that he would have taken an extra second or two to reorient himself and take appropriate action.
That delay, plus what I wrote above would make it a certainty in my mind that he would have had an unscheduled plane to ground rendezvous without the Auto-GCAS.