ClippedCub - yes, it does, many thanks for your time and effort. We'll see what else emerges in the next weeks.
Sorry, the book I'm referencing is "Handling the Big Jets" by D.P. Davies, first out in 1967, last ed. 1971 - can be found online and is the best (and, perhaps aside from "Flying the Wing"), only book on handling large transports which doesn't cater to manufacturer spin but is instead written with great knowledge and even humour, to airline pilots.
It is both the easiest thing and a very difficult thing to conjur a series of circumstances from the first hint of difficulty to initial degradation to the beginning of the actual accident sequence. One thing is for sure - there's a lotta people out there including cockpit crews, "into the books".