badgerh, regarding recoverability of the stall note that the instance a recovery was made does not mention the THS at its "up" limit as AF447 had. It would have taken over 5000' for the THS to become neutral and another who knows how much for it to go "down" enough to matter. Then could it be returned to neutral fast enough for the plane to fly out of the recovery. It'd be real close at 10000', I bet.
(grin) Anyone here willing to try?