Thank you, Flash. Was thinking same thing about previous post.
I raise the FBW issue after seeing a few thousand posts about the Airbus FBW and the layers of reversion modes. Thanks to Kulvers once again about a hint of this plane's system, so it does seem possible to eliminate at least some of the computer commands that are based upon air data and body rates and even attitude ( Airbus pitch and roll correction to the gee command).
The biggie is how much "authority" the human has versus the machine laws. Did the crew even try to revert to a semblance of hydraulic/mechanical control?
My point is that the crew may have been facing a more complicated scenario than several here have assumed. A straightforward pitot/static failure on older systems was not real hard to handle. This is not so with the FBW systems, as we saw with the "not to be referenced thread".