We are all speculating here ( and I am about to add my twopenny worth) but yet again it has developed into A Vs B.
1. Why was GA action not taken immediately!
2. If idle had been commanded as part of the flight path correcting actions, then you can select TOGA but you are not going to get it in 1 to 2 seconds! The time available before ground impact is not there.
3. If the aircraft did not have AOA / Stall protection. Then all you guys saying that you want the controls to do what you ask, would have had the nose come up (making you feel good), stalled the aircraft, increased the ROD and impacted the runway tail first and we can all guess the outcome of that!
What a lot of you seem to forget is that the americans did it first with the F16. Also there was a lot of design input to the 777 by a few dino's in the US majors. Otherwise why would you have that great control wheel to turn a few electrical transducers!! not forgetting the other control wheel.
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Keep smiling!!!!