Originally Posted by
Tay Cough
There is of course the possibility that he realised full well that he hadn't achieved his gate and was physically unable to do anything about it until it was too late, at which point he attempted to recover anyway. Once again, difficult to prove though but no more or less valid than DRUKs opinion.
Just for the record, I wasn't venturing an opinion, but simply quoting from the report.
But you are correct in that a number of the AAIB's findings contain an "either/or" where two or more alternative scenarios exist and the evidence is insufficient to determine which one is actually what happened.