Originally Posted by
Mr Optimistic
Or they could see their (true) attitude and interpreted the situation in such a way as to render nose up the best option. How about they had lost all faith in their plane and were of the opinion that it was not responding appropriately to their inputs,
We can't exclude that.
But it would only make sense if there was a prior significant and persistent attempt to try the classic stall recovery.
In a 200t Airliner you don't give up a serious recovery attempt after 5s. It will for sure take a siginifcant amount of time to get such a thing flying properly again after really enetring a stall.
At least i fail to see any significant indication of that in the information bits we have at hand.