Originally Posted by
john_tullamarine
Neither of the other two could have done any better, using available data from CVR.
.. many of us would have thought that it just needed someone to look at the AH for a moment (obviously, there was no semblance of an instrument scan in the cockpit at the time ..) and wonder why the body angle was up where it was ... not rocket science for those who have a good grounding in stick and rudder I/F, I would think.
It is my surmise that it was the Horizon to which PM was pointing: "Here, and here, you go up....so go DOWN"
Also, Captain DuBois: "Take this.......Watch your lateral!!"
From the CVR... Wondering about what was working and what was erroneous was their plight, they hadn't the benefit of Recorders, and seven years on.....
Just what the situation calls for, Autotrim into a non recoverable Stall. As if....all was normal? Autotrim, in its insidious way, foreclosed recovery; every second of Nose Up bias it supplied cemented their doom. Trim is for cruise, not for maneuvering out of unusual attitudes....