A very interesting presentation from American Airlines back in the 90's called Children of Magenta -(you can search for this on google) described the over dependency on computers when things went wrong very quickly and not reacting by instinct due to lack of flying skills or part thereof. Also, possibly a loss of CRM skills since when under stress, you tend to revert to earlier behaviors without thinking. Could both flightcrew (since they were of different nationalities) loose precious time diagnosing the issue and flying the aircraft out of the situation(assuming the plane was flyable until the crash).