What might be enlightening is to annotate that plot with the reported (and time-correlated) CVR remarks...
I am not particularly confident in the veracity and completeness of the CVR transcription as provided in the media thus far, It is what we have for now and worth discussing. With that...
(I updated the IAS calc using the method suggested here:
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/44986...ml#post6419000 -- Found that just after my reply to OBD. (Thank you by the way for your kind words. They were very much appriciated
))
Also, for what it's worth, remember the cloud base was in the vicinity of 1700 ft above *MSL* (I am using GPS altitude in these plots).
These annotations may also be helpful here:
with
for comparison.
The period ~18 to ~30 seconds after the initiation of the second GA in the last two has stood out to me over the past couple of days as interesting, but I don't know what to make of it myself.