All the talk of what is a stall etc. and how us pilots 'know' exactly what it is like to be in a stall....What we don't know is if we would be able to decide if we were in a stall or a dive should we be in a cockpit with no outside visibility or working instruments and all we knew was that we were descending at a rate where we could be almost in zero g.
That may well be the difference between our experiences of stalling and their experiences on the day - experiences that no simulator training would have been able to reproduce.