Chris Scott - no cheap shots from me at a foreign manufacturer. But you will continue to get heat from a lot of us AA folks simply due to the fact that the NTSB investigation NEVER was able to determine whether the f/o manipulated the rudder the way he did. And our training program never had us resorting to rudder only during a wake encounter. Unusual attitudes, yes - ailerons supplemented with rudder. But not just a wake encounter. And due to the history of the Airbus' rudder/tail problems, it is very suspect.
Absolute Rubbish!
These statements are in direct conflict with the conclusions of the Accident Report (Aircraft Accident Report NTSB/AAR-04/04). In particular, read the evidence given by other AA flight deck crew who witnessed this FO previously performing "aggressive" rudder inputs in similar circumstances. When questioned, the FO defended himself by saying that "the AA Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program directed him to use to rudder pedals in that manner" (page 12 if you are interested).
Read the goddam Report before sprouting such rubbish. A lot of perople died in this accident and if you don't understand what happened then their sacrifice (both the lives of the crew and passengers) are wasted and we are doomed to repeat history.
Please sick to the facts. We don't need a bunch of clowns going around sprouting self-opinionated or other political bull**** to try and change history so those extremely valuable lessons that we in the professional aviation community have learned at enormous human cost are simply denigrated.