Originally Posted by
Chu Chu
Take this thought from an SLF for what it's worth, but when I read that the pilots could have saved the aircraft by looking up pitch and power settings on a chart, I ask what about that couldn't be done by a computer.
Well, one of the lines of speculation is that the handling problems were exacerbated by the computer control of an automated trim system, as a result of erroneous data being fed into the computer. What you're proposing is to have that same computer (whcih is making the problem worse, based on bad data input), take over flying the airplane, and fix the problems that it is creating ... based on that same bad data that is causing the problem. See how that all gets kinda circular?