w7 - one more go. See #2103. They were deviating around an area of increased instability in the ITCZ. It may or may not have been a 'thunderstorm' but there is no indication that it was. As I quoted, all the a/c that deviated the other way (East) had a rough ride.
I am detecting a general increase in 'urban legend' again that in general the PF made constant 'nose-up' inputs. This was indeed the report's conclusion for the top of the zoom and the early part of the (stalled) descent, but was NOT the conclusion for the zoom itself. Xcitation's 'bullet points' (last quote in #2096) taken from page 3 of the May report are misleading and are perhaps due to translation problems in that they imply that the inputs were mainly nose up 'from A/P disconnect'. BEA have not produced any substantiating evidence of this. Regarding the 'zoom' they say:
"The PF made nose-down control inputs and alternately left and right roll inputs."
The climb is still unexplained.