DW, so you think the way the FO's handled the situation was correct and a fully qualified captain in the cockpit is not necessary? What fully qualified captain would hold the controls all the way back for 3 and a half minutes? Non that I know of. If the captain had been in the cockpit when they lost airspeed he would have handled it like all of us would have. Flown attitude and power setting until clear of the weather, not pulled up and stalled. I guess every country is different but that is what we do.