I hope you'll all forgive me for sticking with this angle for a moment.
Would the PNF and Captain have had a better grasp of the situation had they SEEN a yoke held full 'nose up' ie with the PF holding the yoke right back, probably with both hands!?
I think...Yes.
Someone would have said 'push FFS!'
With the sidestick (and I know it works great on single seaters) this was plainly FAR from obvious.
A second point re flying hours. I've seen 20,000 hours as the experience on the FD mentioned a few times. 19,950 of that was prolly playing sudoku (or whatever long haul guys do) while the AP flew and the FMS nav'd.
At my company we have to show one 3degree landing a month (steep apps normal) and there's also recency for Autoland.
Why not recency for visuals and hand flying? Why not for raw data too?
God knows we could all do with it.
These guys were very poorly prepped for their hour. And when the hour arrived............
Automation makes you (and me) lazy.
It's the new killer.