fireflybob I don't know about the the A330 but in the Colgan accident the captain pulled back when he got the stick shaker, this induced the stick pusher, he then proceeded to pull back against the stick pusher all the way to the ground. The sad thing is that they were initially not at a dangerously low speed. The de-ice had been left on and that biases the stick shaker to come on at a higher speed than normal. When the shaker shook, the aeroplane was flying just fine and all the captain had to do was advance the power levers to increase the airspeed a bit, instead he heaved back on the column and doomed them all to a rapid contact with the ground. The FO didn't help by retracting the flaps.