RBF
Surely in a spiral dive you would have increasing G if you pulled backstick which you could sense. Can't see the confusion myself, certainly not for 4 min's.
It may well be when all is said and done that we will have to accept that the crew got it wrong, in failing to avoid the weather (if that is what it was) and the Captain in his bunk and in how they dealt with the failure's when they occurred. Not a pleasent thought but there it is. What we need to ask ourselves, each individually, is if it could happen to them could it happen to me. I would like to think that I could have dealt with it, then again I would like to think that 3 trained pilots flying for a major carrier could have dealt with it They didn't. Time for me and all of us to review a few things.