My question is: at the first stick-shakes would TOGA have brought the A/C out of that RETARD state,
- yes, and important to get F/D guidance for the g/a too, but NOTHING wrong with click click and straight arm if in doubt!
Yes, the pitch change would have been severe, and may well have caused a subsequent loss of control due to the tailplane trim (see also PGF Airbus thread)
particularly if they had re-entered the 700' cloudbase in that state. However, Boeing say they didn't get that far before hitting the ground. Boeing say for some inexplicable reason the A/T was left in and only the throttles 'pushed' open at which point they closed again as designed, causing even more pitch changes.
DC-ATE The RHS TC rumour was introduced awhile back by some erk but has not been substantiated. The official line is TC LHS, F/O trainee RHS.
Dinger - it has NEVER been an autoland problem - just idiots here who cannot read.
Rananim -
nd so to his mind he has minimum speed reversion protection(alpha floor).
- in which case he did not know his a/c!