> It should have been obvious to anybody with even basic flight training
what
> was happening and what the solution was, but the co-pilot kept the stick
> back regardless and flew it into the sea.

I don't think the stick was kept back. From what I could imagine,
approaching the Equator over ocean a plane could jump up even with the
stick full forward due to some Equator-specific ocean weather conditions
(quite rare, though).

There was some discussions on Tim Vasquez's jetcrashforum.com back in 2009.
>From what I remember, the forum went a bit far off the route (with some
jetcrash exact predictions), and the forum's server was blocked, and later
was shut down. One of the links to the non-existing now forum:
< www.pprune.org/tech-log/376433-af447-108.html > (for instance, message on
22nd Jun 2009, 18:38 by rer47)
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