Originally Posted by
BlueMoon
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.
I know it feels good to attack the poor decisions of dead pilots, while trying to make yourself seem smart, but are you familiar with the power to weight ratio of a Q400? He could have accelerated out of it easily. also, as previously discussed, he didn't hold the yoke to his chest the whole time, he was fighting the pusher (a common mistake). And I'm not the one saying it, experts are. google is ur friend.