Originally Posted by Machinbird
The man's scan was obviously broken at that point. He was not monitoring pitch!
If I may ask as a non-pilot: If you're struggling with roll control and your scan has narrowed to the ADI, is it plausible that you miss pitch altogether? Is it possible that he was aware of increasing pitch attitude, but didn't care because 15° was his target all along? Perhaps he only reluctantly and half-heartedly gave in to the PNF's urging "You're climbing, go down" until at 02:10:49 he changed his mind and went for 15° instead. Was there perhaps a similar mental process taking place at 02:11:32 when he admitted "I don't have control of the airplane anymore now (...) at all" and, after the PNF had taken control, abruptly took the controls back?