Originally Posted by
Water pilot
This statement is exactly why I feel that we do not have the complete picture yet. When the trace shows that at least two different pilots did something completely counterintuitive (a few short bursts on the trim rather than holding it down) when they really, really wanted to make the plane go UP instead of DOWN, I think that there is a factor that we do not know about yet.
You can find a fairly comprehensive review at the following link which includes some reasonable speculation as to why the pilots did not trim sufficiently during the final moments:
https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/what...-on-et302.html