Originally Posted by
captain152
I think we all agree that in a full-fledged stall, NONE of us would EVER MAINTAIN pitch attitude and apply full power.. we would ALL do what we have been trained to do since pre-private... pitch DOWN to break the damn stall and add full power, THEN pitch back up to regain altitude
I have a feeling that if you asked that flight crew a week before the accident, they probably would have said the same thing as you.
The problem, as others have pointed out, is that in an emergency situation a person will revert to the training that they have received. A person who has been subjected to the normal imminent stall recovery procedure every 6 to 12 months, will tend to apply that technique rather than the full stall recovery which is both very different and typically not trained after one receives their Commercial Pilot license (a long time ago for some of us). Also something to consider, if a person has been subjected to regular simulator based tail stall recovery procedures, such as the ones that Colgan teaches or at least used to, they will likely be sensitive to tail stalls and may revert back to that recovery in an unexpected event such as the one that happened here. Train for the normal...Talk about the unlikely.