What really upsets me is that everybody seemsto concentrate on what happened once the aircraft stalled : Who Cares !!!!!!!????
The central question is : Why on earth did they get themselves into this and how ?
BEA has pretty much nailed it : the least experience pilot pitched a whopping 10 deg up without applying power !!! and the most experienced, instead of keeping his eyes on attitude and whatever was left, chose to turn his gaze elsewhere to call the captain to the flight deck.
The failure was never recognized, therefore the adequate checklist never called for.
How could anyone of these 2 ever realize they had stalled when awareness was at its rock bottom from the start ?
Of course they did everything they could to get out of this.................not having a clue about the problem they had to solve.
All this comes to basic airmanship, plain and simple.
Wether this airmanship is training related is open to debate.
Once stalled, I too, would have never been able to recover.