Originally Posted by
jcjeant
This can be interpreted from another point of view ...
If this amendment would have existed before the accident .. the accident would perhaps not have the same end
How can you say that with a straight face? He pulled up almost all the way down!
Let's be clear here - the THS position didn't help matters once stall had been established, but correcting that was a simple matter of pushing the stick forward and holding it there for about 8 seconds. The elevators would have overcome the THS force even before that. They had approximately 70 seconds from apogee until the stall became effectively unrecoverable.
This is like getting hung up on the rivets on the Titanic - OK, so they may not have been the best possible composition, but what made the ship sink was
hitting a ^&*$ing iceberg. Even the best rivets might have only bought them a little more evacuation time at best. This aircraft crashed because the crew handled the aircraft inappropriately and stalled it.