I still don't have an answer to this question - if they are in this very low forward-air-speed, very high nose-up situation, is it easy with the right inputs to bring the nose down in time? How long does it take? That seems very important. You are falling, and the solution is to hold the stick/yoke forward and trim the stabilizer to help and reduce thrust, even if it takes 30 seconds to get a result. That would require a lot of discipline. To do that, you'd have to be damn sure that it was going to work. So would it?
Another thought is - have we found the Achilles heel of the modern wing? The unspoken factor in this crash is the wing design. Does it have this ability to fall like a leaf in honey because otherwise it is so very efficient?
Last edited by deSitter; 15th Jul 2012 at 22:42.