Thanks PJ - it would appear, then, from the BEA release that neither of them noticed the altimeter winding up!
Regarding THS then - if you managed to maintain1g flight while reducing IAS by 100kts maintaining enough pitch 'authority' with the elevators, the THS would not move - or would it simply move to maintain a neutral elevator position as a 'human' would do?
New UAS QRH drill - 'Deploy the bat'
