Originally Posted by
Jhieminga
A corkscrew path sounds suspiciously like a spinning airframe.
The ADS-B data I looked at shows GS 387 mph at 15,000 ft. That is not consistent with a sustained spin and neither is the flight path. Hopefully the FDR will have far higher data resolution and will show the dynamics of the attempted stall recovery.
edit to add image derived from low resolution ADS-B data:
