Ex Cargo Clown there is nothing in the view that I expressed above that said that the crew did not look at the speed tape and see the low speed. As has been discussed previously, it is possible that by the time that the crew understood the low speed aspect of the situation it was probably too late to prevent and/or recover from a stall (low altitude) or that a successful recovery was marred by the failure to disengage the AT – also with complications of mistrim.
If previous crews had progressed to this point then what aspects of their behavior saved them? Your premise is that someone ‘must’ have seen the speed – unfortunately ‘must’ (the obvious) is not always the case when you involve humans.
My premise above is that if there have been previous incidents (common contributors and circumstances), then the absence of accidents implies that either those crews behaved differently or some specific point of the circumstances differed from this accident - possibly under human control. If the difference was in human behavior then we might look toward CRM and Airmanship as solutions – but not as the only solutions..