.. one presumes that that statement is now in question ?
One point bothers me. Putting aside the possibility that the crew was simply overwhelmed by multiple sensory inputs and just could not think straight (and I suspect that we all have been in such a situation from time to time in the box), how is it that the observation of
(a) a reasonably level or nose up attitude plus
(b) low IAS plus
(c) a shedload of ROD
doesn't immediately equal the mental deduction of stall ?