Originally Posted by
captande
Looks like I was wrong, and didn’t remember correctly. That’s been like 7 years ago. I do remember a big discussion on tail stalls after we went over the report. Whoops, forgot guys on APC have never been wrong before.
Tail stall was relevant because that’s the inputs the crew made for recovery. One of the reasons suspected is that there had recently been very extensive training on tail stalls and recoveries due to the Roselawn ATR crash in 1994. Both pilots were actually performing to recent training. The FO by retracting flaps and the CA by pulling aft on the yoke. They were also in icing conditions. It is not that hard to understand how they might have been confused. Now training for tail stalls also highlights understanding the difference in tail stalls and normal stalls.