Originally Posted by
Judd
. You don't have to do a Stuka type dive to un-stall the wings.
Well... sometimes you do, though. AF447 was at about 40 deg. AOA for much of its ride down. So to unstall it they'd have had to put the nose down in that vicinity. Let's say 30deg. That might as well be vertical with respect to how it would feel to a pilot only used to conventional attitudes.