Hazelnuts39
You seem to be falling into the simplistic trap of assuming the elevators and THS were behaving normally. They weren't. The airflow around them approximated to an M2-F1 flight more than anything.
Autotrim should have been disengaged as soon as there was a disagree, because it has to be protected in different ways for different flight regimes. If the flight system doesn't know where it is (alt, speed) then it cannot protect the THS rate and the THS will run away too far too fast, as it did, making the airplane unflyable.
Not for the first time, either.
I am not a pilot and have no qualification beyond a vaguely relevant degree. I never fly.
Last edited by mike-wsm; 16th Aug 2012 at 18:14.