Originally Posted by
klintE
[I]"According to preliminary data, they quarreled, and at the same time pulling the steering wheels in opposite directions, which is why passenger plane went into a dive and crashed."
So, we got some kind of 'dual input' here. Unbelievable.
Just reading this... apparently, they don't see the difference between stick and elevators. Various media outlets keep quoting each other, repeating each other's errors and adding their own.
More quotes, from
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2949365:
"Its elevator [I think they meant "stick" here] was set for a dive, while the stabilizer was exerting an opposing force, making the plane's nose point up". (???)
"The plane's computer began to receive electric signals from all actions performed by pilots on both yokes; normally the yokes work synchronously."
"In the previous landing attempts, autothrottle wasn't working well."
And they point to high AoA on GA and stall as the cause of the crash.
It's a bad, bad, bad case of garbled transmission - I assume someone close to investigation *is* informing the media, but is explaining the findings in layman's terms. The media, in turn, thinks those aren't layman's enough for the general public... and in total absence of technical knowledge, kills it completely.