Originally Posted by
Water pilot
What does that have to do with this thread? This was not a case of the automatics failing and the pilots not knowing how to fly, it was a case of undesirable interference by the automatics during hand flight. The criteria being debated is how skillful should pilots be at responding to a design flaw and if it is safe for a manufacturer to know of the flaw and assume that pilots would all be that skillful.
As outlined countless times by 737 Driver, attention to pitch and power would have saved the day in both cases. Why is that so difficult?