The Airbus Safety message text seems to have been removed (?) But from the Flight article, which I think fairly accurately reproduces what was said:
It said during painting and maintenance it was important to protect all aerodynamic data sensors.
It has also said that tests such as low speed tests "must be performed at safe altitude and be preceded by a recall of basic rules as regards to minimum speeds and recovery actions".
Might I suggest we do not think this is, as suggested above, exclusively applicable to "Static Ports". It might have been... but these are not the "sole" sensors.
I find the second paragraph more interesting... and possibly making comments such as:
This quite sums up the design flaw of the Airbus system. Murphy said quite rightly that if something can go wrong, eventually it will. Even in a Bus. Therefore depriving the driver of the final authority is a serious flaw.
I still can not understand how they could have flown around for so long without any problems only to have the machine do something un-controlable on approach.???
not relevant
There are numerous types of sensor, and numerous versions of each sensor. We do not what, or how many, were affected and when. But the second para seems to be giving out some clues as to the conduct of the "tests", possibly when combined with some sensor errors
NoD