[tophat9000]

Odd ...just so odd...

too much simulator time, too much “always trust and fly your instruments” hammer in to this guy...for a pilot to hold his nose up to stall for 38,000 ft to his death because a ice over pitot tube giving a bad reading?....

head lock...

The sad thing is if the pilot just let go of the controls the aircraft would have probably done a better job on recovering then the pilot did

[raygun]

I believe that to be true in a general sense in that the tail plane generates by default pitch down moment. In general the tailplane should stall long after the wings do, so all things being equal the plane should ultimately pitch down if controls are neutral.

That notwithstanding, it does not explain the continual pitch up input. Neither by Second Officer (PF), nor by First Officer (PM) when he assumed control.

Which incidentally, disciplined CRM would require the FO requesting control, the SO annunciating relinquishment of control, and the FO acknowleging they have control.

I was in a situation where the captain would not take control until I informed him he had control. Prior to that he was screaming at me to let go of the controls (which I did). Then he repeatedly asked for control. When I said, "I let go. I don't have control." He stated, "You, must give me control." "you have control." "I have control."