Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
If your nose is up and your are falling, aren't you usually stalled, or undepowered for your desired flight profile? Well, the power levers were last reduced to ~55%, so the latter consideration seems to have been rejected, so you are back to nose high and falling, rather than nose high and climbing.
What did they see on their attitude display?
Either that or they didn't trust the AI.
Maybe it contradicted their 'picture' of the situation and they considered it unreliable as well ? When bombarded with Warnings and Failure messages it may become difficult to sort out what exactly is still properly working and what not.
As a response to the question by a member here in the thread of what the pilots felt acceleration wise it has to be noted that they would have felt a normal vertical g and accelerating (slightly increasing) feeling of an order of magnitude of a take off acceleration (~ 0,2g) (Due to Pitch attitude).
Without any visual reference this could heavily contradict the preconceived notion of what you would feel in a stall.
(When training stalls in Light Aircraft at the beginning of the career you will have a ND attitude after the stall leading to a more decellerating/falling sensation rather than accelerating and normal vertical g). This together with no outside reference and dubious instrument readings might give you a misleading picture of what is going on.
Don't underestimate the power of the human 'Seat of the Pants' feeling on our perception.