It takes amazing skill to control a plane that has lost its tail and to make it rotate without flipping while reducing the speed.
I agree with the Yonhap comment poster, it is very tough to control a plane that has lost its tail.
We would all like to believe that we as pilots are heroes and would not crash a perfectly functioning aircraft in good weather on a routine approach.
We should know more soon when the CVR transcript is released by the NTSB.