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Quite a big assumption that it was being manually flown at the time.
That's quite a point. If the W/S G/A was flown with the autopilot, and the aircraft was behaving like that, then the crew are in the unenviable position of being in a FBW aircraft that
really is not doing what it should do. From the armchair, it appears that returning it to a known working configuration (ie not config full) would have caused some relief in there - and personally I may have elected to land flap 3 at the alternate....