theamrad: "As stated previously by others, this should NEVER have gotten as far as stick shaker - training flight or not."
The scary part is not only about not detecting the premature A/T retard at 1950 feet and not noticing continuous airspeed decay, not monitoring their airspeed, . . . but about improper stall recovery.
The crew had become completely bedazzled by the automatics.
The airplane easily could have been recovered from an approaching stall at 500 feet if only the captain had kept his paw on the thrust levers after shoving them forward. Instead, after applying full thrust, he had taken his paw off the thrust levers and allowed the still engaged Auto Throttle to retard the thrust levers a second time. At this point the do nothing copilot was a flying passenger. This comedy of fatal errors is a symptom of a complete breakdown of cockpit discipline and lack of application of elementary, manual flying skills.
