Greybeard:
When I'm in an elevator which is going downwards I feel exactly that: descent.
Conversely, when I'm in an elevator which is going up I feel exactly that: ascent.
But a descending elevator does not normally descend at 10,000 ft/minute.
I just can't get my mind around an aircraft descending at 10,000ft/minute and no one
felt that. I'm not doing so out of any morbid or macabre reasoning. It just seems to me that at such a rate of descent that the PF might have felt the same and applied back pressure on the stick.
Then again, perhaps I don't fully understand the aerodynamics involved here.