Originally Posted by
tjernagel
My problem with this entire accident is bad AOA or not, the airplane should not have nosed into the ocean. This was not a fatal discrepancy. If the horizontal stab is continuing to trim nose down disconnect it and manually trim the stab.
Nailed it IMHO tjernagel.
The fundamental question must be, did the crew fail to disconnect the trim and operate it manually? If not, then why not?