The July 6 edition of The Globe and Mail, Canada's so-called "national newspaper", carried what I thought was a poorly-written, incomplete and therefore misleading story on AF447 and the BEA report. Be that as it may, it included the following:
For the last 10000 m of freefall, the last two minutes, only test pilots might have pulled off the sort of dramatic, aggressive effort needed to save the plane. That might have involved throttling back one engine to force a wing drop, to drag the nose out of its 40-degree up angle into a dive.
A letter to the editor appeared next day from a pilot who claimed to "have flown and instructed on all classes of aircraft from the most primitive biplanes to the most sophisticated transports and fighters". In regard to the above quote, he wrote:
"All that was needed was full power on all engines and a release of elevator back pressure and the plane would have flown out of it in seconds. You do not "drag" an aircraft out of a nose-up condition - you basically let go of it, and it will drop its nose all by itself.
Maybe this suggestion has been covered in a previous thread, in which case, apologies, but I'm not a pilot and would be interested to hear what the experts have to say.