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"SANS WINGLIFT"? Pardonnez MOI? Something has stabilized her rapid descent at 100 knots...... DRAG, then, not lift. As you will.
The approved and trained recovery from STALL warning was working, it shows that in the traces. All that was necessary was to tweak it. TOGA, check. Maintain PITCH, oops. Find 4 degrees AoA (She did), keep the Power up, and wait. That is for 1000AGL, don't you think with seven miles of sky beneath her, it would be even easier?
She did not "Break", evidently? Mush? Whatever, she flew brilliantly. If, at the STALLSTALL each time, the PF had simply maintained the current AoA, and not PULLED FULL, who's to say? And that is with a dancefloor sized plank in back and an aft cg.
clandestino POWER is meaningless? It is what you got, and it better mean sumpin' "What a Pilot believes is his reality" You doubt that? It is the raison d'etre IMC, non?
180,000 pounds of thrust is not two hairdryers in miladies dainty fingertips. It is the reason twins can fly where they do, with great confidence. It is also the way to save the bacon, and that isn't me, that is AIRBUS talking.
PF had the skills, he did not have the confidence, nor the training to be patient; The unacceptable part of this deal is the lack of preparation on the part of the crew (not their issue), and the fear used as a backstop for engineers to look clever, and beancounters to buy the new Bimmer.
She flew brilliantly, right to the end. 4000 feet? I would not put it past a crack crew and less than moronic design of THS and g for gd PROTECTION.
UA means emphatic accelerations; to be expected. Not the time for clever people to protect the airframe from crinkled skin via g "Protection".
IMO