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Ex BEA - Interim Report No.3 - page 76 ...

Until the end of the flight, the angle of attack values became successively valid and invalid. Each time that at least one value became valid, the stall warning triggered, and each time that the angles of attack were invalid, the warning stopped. Several nose-up inputs [nose-down inputs] caused a decrease in the pitch attitude and in the angle of attack whose values then became valid, so that a strong nose-down input led to the reactivation of the stall warning. It appears that the pilots then reacted by a nose-up input, whose consequences were an increase in the angle of attack, a decrease in measured speeds and, consequently, the cessation of the stall warning.
Bold text as written, and [bracketed] text as I believe was intended.

The French version of this statement on page 78 is more verbose, but has arguably led to a misrepresentation when subject to translation. However the French version is the work of reference, and I've changed the NU inputs to ND inputs in my English copy.
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