Originally Posted by kronan

While it would be nice to think that Marvin was thinking Tailplane stall, just can't buy that theory. Remember the initial APC theory was un-recognized icing leading to a Tailplane stall with Marvin attempting a normal stall recovery.

What I think happened is that Marvin was overly concerned with maintaining altitude consistent with the emphasis he had received in sim training (100' loss was a bust on the event)

I think Rebecca changed the configuration out of the old truism that if you change the config and something bad happens, un-do it. Plane was flying fine until the Gear/Flap extension.....so, let's get back to the config where things were good.

I think it is likely that their X-checks were slow due to fatigue, that Marvin didn't power up after dropping the gear due to fatigue. Woulda coulda shoulda, at least one of them should have caught the aspd dropping into the hook. I don't think either of them realized how slow the plane had gotten and I don't think either of them were thinking stall. I think Marvin was reacting to an out of control plane thinking a wing had fallen off versus a damn let it get too slow, relax-power up-recover