Clandestino,
Good post.
So much blame here, and so little desire to understand.
I too am low on psychology, but it appears that in the thick fog of intense fear, there is a human tendency to revert to the most basic and instinctive actions in order to achieve escape or defence. Going down too much? Pull the stick/yoke back because that normally makes you go up.
When faced with extreme danger, the desired thought process should be:
"Hold on, hold on, what have we got here".
Not
"Going down, will die, must go up, pull up, must go up, pull up".
I would suggest that some people (as you point out, irrespective of experience, training, ability and so on) are much more pathologically prone to the latter rather than the former.
So a solution would be to somehow identify those people and mitigate the risk through training, coping strategy or other means.
PS Getting bored of those with an agenda using this and other incidents to further such agendas.