@ST27
The aircraft pitched up steeply and decelerated from cruise speed to a virtual standstill in the first 30 seconds or so
There is no way an a/c at 38000 ft is going to decelerate fron Mach 0.82 to a virtual standstill in 30s. Imagine the forces on the flightcrew: why would they proceed? If they try, it'll stall
well before the standstill.
The BEA report simply doesn't contain much information. Don't read too much into it.