@franzl
We're talking at cross-purposes here. The BEA say they should have sounded for longer based on the data they have - I'm not disagreeing with that. The nature of that warning seems to be that it would have stopped during the brief period the nose starts to come down after the initial 15 degree pitch-up. Had 15 degrees been held it would have definitely approached actual stall earlier. However. after bringing it back down for a few seconds the PF pulled the nose up again - to just shy of 20 degrees this time, and the stall warning sounded continuously until the indicated speed bled off to the AoA vane cutoff point (i.e. <60kts).
Note that the BEA are referring to transient bursts of the stall warning which do not correlate with the DFDR graphs. The transient warning I was referring to does indeed appear on the graph.
Last edited by DozyWannabe; 31st Jul 2012 at 15:38.