Originally Posted by
rudderrudderrat
"Eventually, the master warning and aural warnings will activate (crickets and “STALL, STALL” ). Recover at the stall warning by selecting TOGA thrust, maintain a pitch attitude for level flight and accelerate through VLS."
Unfortunately, AF 447 crew discovered that it doesn't work at FL 350.
(They probably had it demonstrated at 5,000 ft in their sim conversion course.)
At what point did they try maintaining pitch attitude for level flight ? They (or at least PF) only tried pulling up. And they knew it. As someone said earlier on thread: PF responded, "But I have been climbing for some while...."