I would have to assume that calling someone else's landline with my cell phone counts.

What an optimistic bunch /. readers are...

Is it just me or does is sound like the PIC's action of pulling back so rapidly was a bigger problem than the initial mistake? In his correction, he overshot the assigned altitude by as much as the initial descent went under it. It really just sounds to me like everyone was just having a bad night. Any flight you can walk away from, though...