Oakape - understand your views now, (and concur), thank you.
BOAC, I certainly don't want to let the oozlum bird out of it's cage - however, the contribution of the THS, as discussed by aeronautical engineers here and elsewhere, was not such that the airplane was rendered uncontrollably nose-high once the THS was at its maximum NU deflection of -13.5deg.
In other words, had the stick been placed in the ND position so as to reduce the AoA and unload the wing, (as, I think, Machinbird, said a long time ago, - I know you know this last point - just referencing past work), the elevators, which were still flying, would have brought the nose down and, if the SS were held, (for about 40" in my own sim experiment), the wing would have unstalled.
PJ2