This article needs to be reviewed. The Crash of EgyptAir 990
Yes, it is long; but VERY informative and a good read.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/11/langewiesche.htm My favorite quote in here is from the head of the NTSB, Bernard Loeb. Pulling the nose up is the most intuitive, reflexive thing you can do in an airplane. So when you start hearing arguments like that, you know people are blowing smoke." [re: tail-control failures]
Remember American Airlines 587? Didn't that get blamed for Rudder? Pulling up too hard?
not sure about flight 587, there was time for the pilot to radio "there has been an explosion", yet it did not happen, the only radio transmission before the crash talked about the inability to control the plane.