Auto-trim discussion
There has been a lot of talk about how the auto-trim system trimmed to the nose up limit and how this might have limited the control authority for recovering from the stall.
One thing puzzles me in the discussion. My reading of the BEA release is that the pilots did not attempt to push the nose down (apart from apparently brief nose down inputs around 2h12:17). So the trim position and the auto-trim function was not a factor -- it might or might not have become a factor if the pilots had reacted differently, but it does not seem that it was.
Do other people interpret the BEA report differently on this point?