Originally Posted by
rudderrudderrat
They seem to have simply remembered their previous training (further down on P74)
"The two copilots had only been trained for the emergency manoeuvre at lower levels, in the course of which the pitch attitude to adopt is 10° or 15°."
I'm not convinced...
- not clear call of the procedure
- the said procedure asks for pitch 10/15°
and power TOGA when low level, the crew initially just adapted pitch (and thrust to CLB)
I've read another hypothesis about "why did they pull". Don't have it saved here (@ work), will post it later (from home) but basically the hypothesis was they did try and
follow the bird, which was erroneous due to UAS.