Originally Posted by
aterpster
I asked him the "trick question," which is, "What if the captain had walked back onto the flight deck of AF447 in an aircraft that had conventional control columns, thus seeing them pulled full back?"
His response, "That difference may have very well saved the flight."
Did you then follow up with examples of stall (including Birgenair 301, AF90 and others) where the control column position was not noted?