Originally Posted by John3775
What more is there to argue?
Before you start attacking the dead pilots you need to do a bit more research
here. Are you aware that QF72 was probably fresh on AF447 pilots minds which included false stall warnings and failed PFDs followed by a steep dive that was recovered by a continuous stick back! Note that QF72 had the benefit of visual references (day time + good weather).
The AF447 pilots probably had less than 60 seconds to get ahead of the aircraft that had run away from them. This was not an easy situation, totally untrained for. In this situation panic can occur quickly. You have to ask why did they behave the way they did. You need to dig deeper to find why they made the mistakes.
Originally Posted by atsb, QF72, Interim Factual #1, page 3,4
The crew were also receiving aural stall warning indications at this time, and the airspeed and altitude indications on the captain’s primary flight display (PFD) were also fluctuating.
Given the situation, the captain asked the second officer to call the first officer back
to the flight deck.
At 1242:27, while the second officer was using the cabin interphone to ask a flight
attendant to send the first officer back to the flight deck, the aircraft abruptly
pitched nose-down. The captain reported that he applied back pressure on his
sidestick to arrest the pitch-down movement. He said that initially this action
seemed to have no effect, but then the aircraft responded to his control input and he
commenced recovery to the assigned altitude. The aircraft reached a maximum
pitch angle of about 8.4 degrees nose-down during the event, and a maximum g
loading of -0.80g was recorded. The aircraft descended 650 ft during the event.