Can I suggest that if all participants in this theater were all together in the cockpit of the 447 the night of the event .. the end of the flight would be the same (splash)
and then:
jc, it would be so crowded in that cockpit nobody would be able to see, or move. Picture a phone booth and a bunch of college students trying to set a record of how many men one can stuff into one. No way to read the PFD, for one
Hypothetically it may just have made the difference needed for a different outcome and in a manner not envisaged so far.
The CG of the aircraft (which seems to have lost pretty well all means of aerodynamic and control authority) would have been brought forward to the degree that the seesaw effect might cause the nose to drop to the point where the aircraft starts to move forwards again. Effective airspeed would be recovered and a faint hope for resumption of normal flight presented. It wouldn't be pretty or pleasant and the end result may well have been the same.
All hypothetical of course.
