Originally posted by HN39 ...
... the presence of super cooled water at FL350 is not very probable and would necessarily have been limited to small quantities.
The BEA's comments are accepted as such, but at the time of making them they hadn't completely ruled out that possibility. I have pointed out that the known science doesn't rule it out either.
In respect of
Owain Glyndwr's stall recovery scenario, your follow-up is appreciated. It follows what I had in mind when creating graphics showing the relationship of elevator and THS angles to the relative airflow - some time back. As the pitch is reduced, the applied thrust leads to increasing IAS which rapidly reduces the the AoA and the wing attains the lift to allow the recovery. At the time I had envisaged no more than 10° ND would be required to get the wing flying again, and that appears to have been borne out.