“They were pulling back on the control wheel rather than achieving neutral trim.”
Again, see 5:40:28 of the CVR.
At 05:40:27, the Captain advised the First-Officer to trim up with him.
At 05:40:28 Manual electric trim in the ANU direction was recorded and the stabilizer reversed moving in the ANU direction and then the trim reached 2.3 units.
At 05:40:35, the First-Officer called out “stab trim cut-out” two times. Captain agreed and FirstOfficer confirmed stab trim cut-out.
At 05:40:41, approximately five seconds after the end of the ANU stabilizer motion, a third instance of AND automatic trim command occurred without any corresponding motion of the stabilizer, which is consistent with the stabilizer trim cutout switches were in the ‘’cutout’’ position
I don’t have to look at it again. The key phrase in my previous post is ACHIEVING NEUTRAL TRIM. They didn’t trim the nose up nearly enough. They had to continue applying back pressure to the control wheel to counter the nose down trim. They eventually got tired and that’s when they nosed into the ground.
If you need help reading the charts on page 26 let me know.