A new article from Popular Mechanics. An interesting (and chilling) read.

[quote]The recovery efforts they invoked were the same Airbus bragged about years ago when the debuted a new series about the aircraft being stall proof.

What the instructors did was to raise the nose, contrary to what most pilots would do in a stall, and to go flaps down with the engines to 85 percent power. This places the aircraft in a very stable configuration where the plane’s wing will generate enough lift to maintain flight in all conditions.[/quote]

A nitpick. This procedure is strictly a reaction to unreliable airspeed indication, not an actual stall recovery technique. By configuring the aircraft as described, it will remain in the flight envelope and not stall. The linked article explains that in ‘normal’ law, the A330 will remain in the flight envelope regardless of the pilot inputs to the controls (autopilot or not). Since airspeed had failed, the aircraft was operating in ‘alternate’ law, and all control inputs were taken literally.