FlyCherokee wrote:

On Feb 17, 5:02*pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:

As I was watching the special and they described how the captain
reacted to the stall warning I couldn't help wonder if he attended the
same tailplane icing course I did. His reaction was text book correct
for a tailplane stall in icing conditions (pull back, not push
forward). He may have believed his problem was ice, not an typical
stall scenario.

-Robert

Now that's very interesting, I hadn't heard that before. If your
suspicion is true, it would be a much more reasonable explanation for
his behavior than gross incompetence.

The NTSB had a long enough list of things that were done wrong to seriously
question both pilots' competence. Just read the presentations on crew
response and pilot professionalism on the following NTSB web page:

http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2010/Clar...sentations.htm

They are short slide presentations, but are full of things that simply
weren't done properly.