FlyingTom - you need to re-read your manuals! It does NOT provide 'alpha-floor protection' - it merely applies power if the speed gets too low. Someone in BA has always thought this was 'apha-floor'.
IF you mishandle a low-engined a/c and get the speed too low, with full power you get a lot of nose-up. Have a re-read also of your 'unusual attitude' notes or whatever BA call them.
BA themselves nearly lost a 747 recently at LHR at an extreme attitude and low speed, and I think with stick-shake. It is somewhere on here.