Originally Posted by 2StgTurbine

No. The Q tail was designed to prevent a tail stalls. That is why there is a large bulge on the top of the tail that the smaller Dash-8s do not have. Because of this, there was no tail stall training given in training then. After the crash, they did incorporate it into the training only because the NTSB thought of that was the cause early in the investigation, so Colgan rushed to include that into training. Then the NTSB figured icing was not a cause, but Colgan left it in the training. I find it very unlikely that two pilots concluded they were in a tail stall without any discussion and executed a recovery procedure they didn't teach in training.