Originally Posted by
airsound
Guys, can I recommend the actual words of the Service Inquiry report, which will resolve most of the queries in the past few posts?
You probably need to start reading at Paragraph 1.4.51, in the section titled 'The response of the aircraft'
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...t_2_Ex_Pub.pdf
airsound
Beat me to it! Pages 37-39 give the details. Probably the most significant protection that assisted was the pitch limiting function, that stopped the nose going past -17 degrees. This was then augmented by the overspeed protection which initiated the recovery. Without the former protection, the aircraft would have ended up vertical (with no protections I assume it would simply respond conventionally - and that's what full forward stick normally does!)
Not the first time a protection has assisted:
https://assets.publishing.service.go...EZJK_09-10.pdf