Really don't want to start the hamster wheel again, but ...
On July 27, 2011 when the 3rd Interim Report came out with the flight data and we saw for the first time what actually occurred, I posited the notion that the PF increased the pitch because that what he was taught in his last (A320) sim session when given this problem. I maintain that the memory drill for UAS is confusing and poorly-written. It has in fact been modified prior to the accident, clarifying how the drill will be done, as has the way it is taught since the accident.
IIRC, his training for the UAS event was right after takeoff. The memorized pitch attitude is 15° and TOGA for those circumstances. Rather than climb on board the another hamster wheel, the original post is
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… I remember that, and it would tell us that Bonin indeed had a plan (if the fatally wrong one). But just for clarification: That wouldn't explain the behavior *after* the stall warning went off (considering hat Bonin had a few seconds before realized that he indeed was climbing), would it?