I just found another
thread with regard to the same question, apparently referring to the same documentary. Although the question regarding the full aileron inputs wasn't answered, user
BrasiliaCaptain mentioned a fair point:
Originally Posted by
BrasiliaCaptain
I have a friend who has produced some reality TV shows. They can (and do) cut, paste, and parse footage to make things look more dramatic and drawn out than they really are. So I wouldn't take this footage to be real-time documentation of what happened on that flight.
Even so, I still wonder what the pilots were doing.