Originally Posted by
Zeffy
The first officer failed to follow a procedure to identify which of the two sides of the aircraft was showing the correct airspeed. If he had, a checklist would have told him he could turn on the autopilot, which would have stopped the nose-down movements of the errant flight control system.
In isolation, that sounds like a good argument. In context, that this pilot was experiencing something that should not be happening in the first place, quite literary the plane (trying to) kill him by a non-documented system, this sounds like victim blaming to me. The event was not a simple unreliable speed. It was an unreliable speed with repeatable unexplained nose down trims and the Earth approaching you, fast. And ultimately, if a checklist should have been done but wasn't, isn't that on the captain?
On a technical note, would the AP engage under those conditions??