The answer to this calling out "brace" issue or any other actions taken is really simple when you look at the chronology. I think it's about 90 seconds from the first pan call. I'm not sure how many of you have been in a similar situation. Time is completely distorted in situations like this and the mind is completely overloaded. On the one hand time seems to slow down and on the other things happen too quickly to respond in a considered way. The crew's minds would have been completely overloaded with the immediate control tasks of handling a fully loaded plane that has just left the runway and isn't going to fly and after realizing you can't turn looking for the safest place to attempt a landing and getting the plane to there. That is really all the mind has time for.