Shades of BEA 548 as well - pilots either not at their peak, inexperienced or both, poorly trimmed aircraft, both seemingly inexplicably dumped the stick push...
I do wonder how strong the instinct to "pull up" is and how much training/experience is required to overcome it. Speaking for myself, I'd definitely be instinctively reluctant to push the nose down in a stall situation that close to the ground, even though logically I'd know it was the right thing to do.