Originally Posted by
JD-EE
DozyWannabee, do you see an anti-correlation? He asks for nose up and gets a very significant nose down. When that happens, what does he think? Does his entire mental process derail, especially if he does not recognize he is stalled?
I don't and can't know what he thought, because he's dead. But to my mind only two things can make apparently undamaged controls fail to respond in the correct manner, and those things are:
- an overspeed into the transonic region
- a fully-developed aerodynamic stall
It would appear that the PF - initially, at least - believed it was the former, when in fact it was the latter.