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"It being Lt Allayaud's first mission, I decided to take him to Legacy as I had enough gas to do so and then get home. I steered 220 for 18 minutes over a 10/10 overcast at 9,500 and then called for him to let down through the clouds, and I would fly his wing as my flight instruments were out. I got on his left wing, and he signaled that he had 40 gallons of gas. We started the descent in a normal instrument let down until at 3,000. I believed him to be in a diving spiral to the right and to level off, but got no answer. I continued to let down to 800 indicated and had not broken out, so I leveled off and climbed up again. I called him on the RT several times to tell him to climb back up, but got no answer, so I came on out alone."