TurbineD: We know that speed was deteriorating rapidly after the nose up side stick command, but perhaps the pilots didn't know this.
Turbine: I'll go out on a limb here, and assert that pilots, when they put nose up, know they'll slow down. (Particularly if they don't touch the power lever).
The exceptions I can think of are:
-Space shuttle pilots on lift off
-A fighter pilot whose aircraft has a greater than 1:1 thrust to weight accelerating in Afterburner nose high.
infrequentflyer789
Did the pilots lose attitude info, or did they distrust attitude info, or ? Climb might therefore possibly have been deliberate ? [ I know the climb happens before this comment, but the comment could be on a failure (or not) that happened earlier ].
Some pages ago,
PF "I don’t have any more indications",
PNF said "we have no valid indications"
was discussed and it is an open question what that meant, though some think it was related to previous comments on airspeed indications.
No evidence has been presented to suggest the attitude indications weren't working.
ChristiaanJ made a point a few pages back, on why the pilots would, or would not, be talking much during a high workload condition.
Pilots tend to act (aviate) and then talk(commnicate), particularly a PF. Afte all, it's something we all had drilled into our heads.
ANC (not the political party ...)