AoA can be derived, that too was discussed, ad nauseum. But if only PITCH (assiette), in all its extreme iterations, NOT ONE WORD?
Upon the first reading of the CVR, some Press released a comment from DuBois, as he entered the cockpit, (He had heard the STALLWARN, briefly).
"This is STALL, get the NOSE DOWN"....It disappeared from the public domain, and I cannot find it here in the earliest threads.
No word from BEA, only an abbreviated and "approved" version.
"We have lost all control"....PITCH too? No discussion of controls that continue to function.
I do not know if my conclusions make my sanity suspect, but from the very first, I have not trusted the way the discussion "evolved" to competely blame the pilots.
As a pilot, I will always doubt the slam dunk nature of the comdemnation that clouds the professionalism of this flghtcrew.
Does that mean BEA have published lies? Perhaps, but for now, it is not necessary to believe they lie.
Only that they are quiet, and sit on the only possibility of exoneration.
That's unacceptable....
thanks for your response, LW