Originally Posted by
FastDEW
The Bus is a nice flying airplane. You have protections, but you still need to fly it like any other airplane. The prots would be kicked off and so if you are hearing a stall warning, your instinct would be power on and nose down or level. Even in the Normal Law we are never told to pull up and reduce power for a stall.....
Reading the article it seems the very first reaction was to reduce power and climb. Why? I cannot think of ANY situation where this would be the first choice

Air France 447: the facts and what's behind them - Learmount
This is one of the best descriptions I've seen so far. It's hard to believe that the airplane (which they knew was weight limited to FL350) would have the energy to zoom climb to 38,000.