The aircraft would have continued flying within the flight envelope - it was not in a dangerous state. You should go and reread PJ2's comments (on one of these myriad threads) on doing nothing. As a pilot one evaluates and then acts. One does not act and then wonder why things go wrong. One scans ones instruments, absorbs the information then in this situation pitch and power.
Now this is not about 'crucifying' the crew it is about understanding why the accident happened. The simple fact is that it was the crew who put the aircraft into the situation where it crashed - nothing else. The following points pertain; CRM, training, crew knowledge of SOPs, lack of knowledge of the machine, airline culture. All these combined to cause the accident in what was a survivable situation. This is the simple fact of the matter, if one assigns responsibility one has to look at the crew and the airline and its procedures.
Last edited by Old Carthusian; 4th Nov 2011 at 08:40.