To be fair, captains gotta sleep sometimes. Thats why copilots exist. Its more important for the captain to trust his copilots in a strange situation. I would argue that more errors have been made by captains / managers who start micromanaging when they panic, instead of trusting their lieutenants.
The captain woke up eventually, returned to the front to check out what was going on, and then trusted his pilots to explain to him what was going on. Unfortunately, one of his pilots was incompetent and his actions was confusing the other (actually competent) pilot.
The issue is that the ignorant copilot didn't know the issue about stalling out, nor how to get out of a stall. It takes specific training to pull a plane out of a stall. It goes against human instinct (you have to push the plane down, THEN after certain velocity is reached, pull up later).
The competent pilot was overruled by the incompetent one (the incompetent one was in the primary seat). The rest is history.
Pulling up immediately is the human panic response that needs to be "trained out". And its what one of the two pilots did in the situation.
The captain woke up eventually, returned to the front to check out what was going on, and then trusted his pilots to explain to him what was going on. Unfortunately, one of his pilots was incompetent and his actions was confusing the other (actually competent) pilot.
The issue is that the ignorant copilot didn't know the issue about stalling out, nor how to get out of a stall. It takes specific training to pull a plane out of a stall. It goes against human instinct (you have to push the plane down, THEN after certain velocity is reached, pull up later).
The competent pilot was overruled by the incompetent one (the incompetent one was in the primary seat). The rest is history.
Pulling up immediately is the human panic response that needs to be "trained out". And its what one of the two pilots did in the situation.