beardy
Given the circumstance, in all honesty, would you have delicately taken hold of the top of the stick and applied just the normal amount of pressure. And for a second let's assume that this is what you did, then your next move would be to apply more pressure and shift your grip....... And surely the SI would have reconstructed the Captain's normal flying position in photo's that would ultimately be used as evidence in a CM?
Obviously none of us knows the actual circumstances, we weren't there. I'm just asking the question that others (several, all aircrew) have voiced to me privately.