Originally Posted by
Lyman
Loss of altitude without a commitment to STALL means exactly what the PF kept reporting, "I feel we have some crazy speed." If at a/p drop, his NU was to arrest descent (as he sussed it), and the 'descent' never 'arrested', this easily explains his commitment to overspeed in descent.
Oh come on. The "descent" at A/P drop was not only arrested it was turned into stupidly rapid climb at 10-15deg nose up. And if PF didn't grasp that from the instruments, PNF also told him, at least twice I think.
The later descent starts from nose up and stall warning sounding, and the nose never goes down - how could that not be a stall ? When later the nose does go suddenly down (as the control surfaces hit the stops) PF carries on pulling hard back. Had it dropped rapidly at the stall, surely he would h\ve done exactly the same as a minute later - pulled back.