Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
They would have easily powered out of it at 100% if she hadn't raised the flaps, uncommanded. Fatigue.
While raising the flaps didn't help, If he stopped pulling back on the yoke when the shaker and then pusher came on they would have recovered.
That is private/commercial pilot 101 there, at the buffet lower AOA, everything else is secondary. You can add all the power you want, but if you don't reduce AOA you will still stall.