340 (Or Any FBW Airbus) Crew?
OK. Don't wanna start any undue speculation here BUT, I will just say this one thing:
From ALL the pictures that I have seen so far... the spoilers have NOT appeared to have been deployed.
I'm not on a 'Bus so I'm not up to scratch on spoiler operations... but would be interested to know:
1) If you can land without spoilers armed? IE. will the systems allow it, or will there be warnings of any kind?
2) Is there any sort of auto-stow feature built-in... IE, automatically lowers spoilers below, say 20kts? (I doubt it, but I wouldn't put it passed Airbus).
Regardless, at this point the AF crew (both sides of the door) should be congratulated on handling a very difficult situation extremely well.