tdracer
I am guessing this was before the ET FDR traces were released, be interesting if you asked now and they all said that the first thing they'd do was get the a/c back in trim and then turn it off. Which is actually what the ET crew tried to do but when they turned it off they were still too far out of trim to move it with the too-small trim wheel. The 100/200s had a bigger trim wheel (and smaller stab I think) of course...
BALPA have already come out saying the trim wheel issue needs fixing, I don't think they will be the only ones saying that.