Was going to say exactly this. Pilots do practice recovery training (with normal stall recovery as well as in adverse conditions), and I'm sure all of the pilo

Was going to say exactly this. Pilots do practice recovery training (with normal stall recovery as well as in adverse conditions), and I'm sure all of the pilots on board were aware (or at least should have been aware) of the correct procedure. Airbuses are weird beasts though, and I have to say that as a pilot I find the normal stall recovery procedure to be completely counter intuitive. The compounding problems with the pitot tubes being iced over plus seeing St. Elmo's Fire due to improperly routing the aircraft directly into a thunderstorm certainly didn't help matters.