Originally Posted by
tdracer
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Ethiopian was flyable using the processes and techniques that Boeing had recommended (as one of the Indonesian crews had demonstrated) - something that the pilots failed to do for whatever reason.
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Yes and no. The instructions only work(ed) as long as the aircraft was more or less in trim and the micro manual trim wheel could be moved. Once they passed the point of no-return, Boeing instructions no longer worked and there were little options to save the flight. And that point of no-return happened pretty fast, after the things went haywire, before they even did have the opportunity to find out in a cockpit full of cacophony, which of the bogus alarms should be ignored (IE the stall warning).
Of course, a simple pitch/power action could have made life easier, though given they were in a climb, with ATC given directions, etc, so not something to do as a first action, given it'll need leveling off in a rising terrain situation. And not much later, it was already past the point of no-return, the crash became unavoidable.