Microburst2002
An Airbus 330 can get so deep in a stall that you don't have any means to recover from it even if it stalls a a high level?
Captain Rosay is a cagey old test pilot. If he says that, he may have seen indications in some of their test data pointing to that conclusion, but I doubt that AB has strayed very far from the immediate area around the stall in their test flying. It is just too risky to do deep stall work. (But see my post in the other AF447 thread
http://www.pprune.org/6494757-post1415.html) He has also no doubt seen wind tunnel test results at high AOA.
But to me, the initial description of the AF447 descent seems to indicate that they could have retrimmed the THS and recovered. We will have to see what BEA says about it.