My reading of the Ky interview is, that he's taking all the precautions he can whilst being as neutral and positive minded as possible. His job is, after all, that of a politician. But he does leave behind several get-out clauses, should anything fail to go exactly to plan. He clearly can't speak his mind, but only rely on the evidence put before his authority. Since Boeing hasn't submitted their fix yet, EASA hasn't performed simulator and flight tests, nor subsequently collated all that data into a finding, he has to maintain a neutral and consensus building position. That could change either way tomorrow.
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OldnGrounded
And the notion of "a transitional period in which the plane could be cleared with reduced pilot overload" is just . . . odd.
Think an earlier poster hit the nail with his earlier description of how HAL should handle an AoA failure: by gracefully handing over the aircraft to the crew without bells, horns, stick-shakers going off. In the light of that, the proposal is certainly not without merit. Now, whether it'll be easier to have the old girl fall over nicely, perhaps having to advise of her condition via EICAS, or bolt a synthetic sensor to her innards, is not something I'll hazard a guess on. Both sounds expensive though.