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Locked door
What is far more interesting is why two supposedly competent pilots were unable to recognise that 10 degrees nose up and 10000ft per min descent rate is a stall. The Captain realised as soon as he entered the flight deck but by then there was insufficient height to recover, hence his comment “we’re dead”.
LD
The PM knew how to recover from the stall. The PF didn’t know, or didn’t recognise it.
The PM was unaware that the PF had been pulling back. HUGE DESIGN FLAW. The PF only stated that after the CA entered the cockpit. In the heat of the moment, I’ll forgive the PM for not asking the bleeding obvious “by any chance are you pulling
back on the stick?”
In some jobs, you can’t have bad apples.