Hi JD_EE,
Originally Posted by JD_EE
The plane quit doing what he asked for. It went nose down, and stay there depressingly long, when he had full up on the elevator.
(And it was Takata, bless his heart, who pointed me to this in one of his messages in the last few days here on these pages.
Thanks sweety!
But you should also remember that I had likely found an explanation for the first drop of the nose... not in pilot's flight control imputs!
You'll have to look closely at the thrust settings to see it. This drop happened exactly when they reduced thrust from CLB down to IDLE (hence, the following large pitch down moment) and it certainly also caused the right wing to depart at the same time... consequentrly, it caused twice the amount of confusion as the PF tried desperately to keep his wings level and his nose up at the same time.
Captain watched it, arriving at the same time. During most of the following minute, aircraft pitch was maintained up and down between -10 and +10.... but they re-applied full thrust again... really too bad. If they had stopped their pitch imputs and let the thrust to IDLE, simply controling the turn, she might have recovered naturally at this point.