Originally Posted by
Shaggy Sheep Driver
Assuming they knew they had conflicting instrument indications (they might not have had time to deduce it was airspeed indication that was wrong) why wouldn't they fly power / attitude?
Surely they wouldn't just slavishly follow an erroneous ASI readout and ignore excessive pitch attitude indications (presumably on both main AIs and the standby AI)?
Why not - happened before (AF477?) , will happen again as long as humans are in the chain of command. Humans behave in irrational ways, sometimes.
I'm not saying that machines in the cockpit would be a perfect solution, they might solve this problem but replace it with another.