Originally Posted by Machinbird
Don't you think if the AF447 crew had seen the trim position - the light bulb would have come on? And the Perpignan crew also?
In hindsight, with all these informations available to us, they would certainly have acted differently. But it looks like a tunnel vision issue up to this point, like if something took all the PF attention: it is not even sure that a giant red warning "THS +13 degree" painted on his PFD would have made the outcome different if he was believing to do exactly the right thing.
This THS information would have been paramount only if he had tried to pitch full nose down but lacked from elevators authority. Now, was this even attempted before it was too late?
If not, the main issue about what crucial information didn't reach the PF in time lie certainly elsewhere.