Take this thought from an SLF for what it's worth, but when I read that the pilots could have saved the aircraft by looking up pitch and power settings on a chart, I ask what about that couldn't be done by a computer. Of course, the computer couldn't land the aircraft on pitch and power (or at least I don't think it could). But it seems a lot safer to hand control back to the pilots with the aircraft in a stable climb (in this case), and let them take things from there.