gums, " But the nugget kept pulling, maybe believing that HAL would prevent a stall AoA."
Is there another way to see it?
The report is cherry picked sufficient to lend it to simplistic statements such as this. Gums, "nugget" is not a terribly professional term...
Dozy, this flight path went South in the first 20 seconds, tops. That is 2:10:25.
Speeds were acknowledged as duff at 2:10:16, and (generic) Alternate Law six seconds later, at 2:10:22. Not AL2.
PNF quickly stopped correcting PF, and ended up confused, telling Captain "We have tried everything, what do we do?"
Failing a complete CVR, and the true "nuggets", BEA has not made a case for a more complete picture.
I do not trust that BEA have redacted only irrelevant commentary and audio signals from the CVR for the public record....
That is not a widespread belief, but it is mine.
regards