Originally Posted by
dera
Clicking off the A/T wouldn't have done anything in this case. TL's would've stayed at the climb setting.
But you obviously would've immediately realized that oh, the stick shaker is false (look at the yoke reaction - he initiated a stall recovery due to the shaker), and pulled back on the thrust levers even when you're not exactly sure why the shaker is going off, your airspeed readings are off, and you have all sorts of other warnings and conflicting messages showing up.
I'm glad everyone here is such a superior pilot that something that has killed 2 qualified crews would not be "much of a challenge".
Airspeed was close enough to be reliable for discerning a stall (or not) the whole time.
Groundspeed and looking out the window could've helped as well.
Only one side had activated for the shaker (big clue right there).
At no point did anyone pull back the thrust levers.
I get it, initial reaction, shaker goes off, yeah probably try a stall recovery... it's what they spring load us to do in training.
None of that excuses the next 5 minutes of staying at basically full thrust. Nearly 3 minutes of which was in overspeed. If you can't comprehend this basic fact of how this accident happened then you do not belong anywhere near an aircraft.