Sunbird
Could the aircraft have recovered from the stall by itself. Most jets if not in a spin will recover from a stall hands off,given enough altitude.
Is it possible for the A330 to recover from this particular stalled state?.I do not know.
In this case probably not. In Alt 2 law, the aircraft is trying to hold a pitch attitude. The attitude was not an appropriate one for recovery.
One wonders what would have happened if the aircraft would have rolled over. She could have possibly built up speed in that manner, but with the THS set so high, it is possible that g may have shot past the ability of full down elevator to limit. Then again, depending on how the nose did or did not fall, it just might have created an inverted stall..
HN39, any ideas on this?