An experienced US military trained pilot would have rolled the aircraft inverted where nose down inputs become nose up
Only in the movies
No...it was done in the Alaska MD-80 crash AS261 when the jackscrew failed. Capt was an exNavy F-14 pilot. The horizontal stabilizer eventually departed the aircraft and the plane crashed into the ocean off Santa Barbara. But it did buy some time.
What Denzel W did in the movie was not in the relm of possibility.