Originally Posted by MartinM
All I try is to figure out what made him pull after disconnecting the AP.
The right person to answer that would be capt Marvin Renslow as he's the only one known to perform the similar feat. Unfortunately, neither he nor his F/O are able to tell us what were they thinking as their aeroplane pitched up and stalled.
It's debilitating fatigue, suckers!
@BOAC: 1. agree with your view on BEA "report", 2. We'll have to wait for proper report, with full DFDR traces and CVR transcript, to see whether it was simple software mess-up or not 3. pitot heat was almost certainly on - high altitude ice sticks to heated parts, like probes and engine compressors.