Does it not appear to you all that they knew they were descending, but that they thought it was an ordinary (Unstalled) descent? That the Captain rejected spoilers perhaps because he thought they were too fast? That they may not restow correctly on recovery of normal speed? That they never sussed the descent was slow (airspeed), and vertical, rather than horizontal ('normal' assiette), with plenty (too much) airspeed?
Can you see it another way?
At the end, the Captain.... "It cannot be..." Does he just then realize the ship is way nose up? Not Nose down, and (seemingly) 'unresponsive' to Pitch UP commands? They have had no ordinary sense of decel, nor a NOSE DROP, the a/c has been around one g all along, what did they have to sense the a/c's attitude? (That they trusted?) And Clearly, they were unaware of the attitude. How would YOU have known?
"Pull, Pull, Pull...."
Hazelnuts39. Yes, the indicated drop. We know. You know. Did 447 crew Know? Because at uncommanded a/p drop, the ship was descending (for real, though trending NU), rolled right, and presented 336 feet too low.
Two seconds later, a STALL STALL. Some of which were bogus. There was a simultaneous sink, so what does he do? The a/c did NOT climb readily, per BEA, in spite of PF's aft stick. His initial left roll was excessive, so with all this going on, I'm going to go out on a limb and say he............got off to a bit of a bad start. He was never given proper cues to sort that out. Lack of reference(s).
Last edited by Lyman; 7th Oct 2011 at 23:03.