Would anyone like to comment on this:-
At 2 h 13 min 32, the PF said "we’re going to arrive at level one hundred". About fifteen seconds
later, simultaneous inputs by both pilots on the sidesticks were recorded and the PF said "go
ahead you have the controls".
The aircraft is telling the pilots (probably correctly) that they are at 10,000ft. The quoted text implies that the pilots believe this. What mechanism (stall/dive/something else) do they believe has got them from FL350 before any problem arose to FD100 (I know they ended up at one point at FL380 but we don't know that they knew that)?
What manoeuvre are the pilots trying to make on the sidesticks and is there any reason why both of them would be making simultaneous inputs other than that they do not trust one or both of the controls to react to the input?