Well, to be frank back, the steps are sequential not parallel. I haven't read anything about the CVR but if they were praying instead of flying that's a huge mistake. They didn't have much time though and they didn't have much altitude to work with(in fact, I just looked it up and they were 450' AGL when they started having some troubles but I couldn't find anything on the cvr transcript). the old adage of aviate, navigate, communicate in that order applies.