Originally Posted by
RatherBeInYOW
Agree with everything you wrote but take a bit of exception to the above. Managing your speed is part of keeping the aircraft in the air and piloting 101; you don't need an AD from Boeing to know that you don't keep TOGA power applied in level/descending flight, run the aircraft what, 100+mph over max speed, have overspeed alarms going off, etc. Now maybe this can be explained by the sheer amount of information snd problems they were dealing with; disagreeing instruments, alarms, stick shaker, trim issues, etc. etc. But it still happened, and will still likely be a contributing factor in the final report.
Where did you get the "run the aircraft 100+mph over max speed" part from? The left indicated speed was at Vmo and the right indicated speed was 25kts higher from about 05:41:20 until about 05:43:25 when the aircraft started to descend after the last automatic trim command. They reached 100mph over Vmo approximately 10 seconds before the end of recording (05:43:43)