Thanks, Dozy. So it was the two with you know, screens who could not decide what to do? PNF says CLIMB, (What was he looking at?), and the PF had already been "Climbing"?
Do you see a problem with what they both may have been seeing on the instrumentation? What was telling them to input Nose UP? Rather than a solution, Captain insists, "NO, No Climb." NOT, "DO THIS..." Instead, a command to do nothing.
They were all three privy to the only ticket home, the instruments.
How long had the a/c been so confused? YES, the a/c. The pilots and Captain are screaming that, they had NOTHING to go on of any value, OBVIOUSLY.
Three pilots in the weeds, but you say the a/c was "Doing as it was programmed...." How do you reconcile this?
A/C? "Nothing wrong, just three confused pilots". You kidding me?