henra, thank you. (Note:
I don't underestimate seat of the pants, I've had
the leans (vertigo) more than once while flying. Hate it. It's got to be fought through, and the usual starting point is by getting the attitude indicator back into the scan and keeping it there.)
By classic stall recovery, are you referring to lowering pitch (slightly, or a lot) to reduce AoA, or the TOGA and set X attitude (5 or 10, based on high or low alt environment) recovery technique? Seems the latter was attempted. (TOGA selected at any rate ...)