Originally Posted by noland3
to suggest the flight crew did not understand Alternate law is ridiculous
- as ridiculous as holding a large amount of back stick well above max permitted altitude? I refer you to Oakape's views.
I see no evidence that they tried to manually trim the aircraft
- did aayone suggest they did? Why would they need to? In their minds, possibly, the machine was going to look after everything and all PF needed to do was to pull back.