Exactly my point. If it is more than 8-10 degrees down from the pitch bars, your AOA is too high. Push forward until it is 2-7 degrees and keep it there. If it is "PFD-limited" i.e. off scale at the bottom, you are most definitely stalled.
And yes most of the time the "bird" is off , but they had over 3 minutes to hit the button and call it up. They were not trained to do this, and it would have probably saved the plane if they had been.
I would like to hear more about the ACARS report saying that the FPV was not working. Does anybody have any info on this? I can't believe a software generated symbol would be "monitored" and reported. The IRU's yes, almost for sure.