Originally Posted by
HazelNuts39
Not surprising perhaps, but 'maintain pitch and power' is designed to avoid that, and usually does.
Regards,
HN39
In clear air, with visual references (including your PFD), I think so too.
At night, in or surrounded by turbulent CBs, it seems less straightforward and I imagine you could exceed your critical alpha. I still don't see how they get from stall onset to the bottom of the ocean, within spitting lateral distance of where they were in the flight levels, while impacting pancake-like (as opposed to some sort of dive). But that a stall occurred at some point does seem likely--at least plausible-- to me.