Thanks, mm43,
That page of posts (page 81) was good to revisit. With the WRN (AP kicking out) at 02:10:10 and the FLR (pitot disagree) 1 minute 39 seconds later (fault msgs batched in minute intervals), any chance the pitot disagree was NOT a precursor (by blockage, bad airspeed indications) to the loss of AP and entry to ALT law, but rather triggered by attitude, airflow, and speed events occuring during the upset itself? Thinking out of the box and possibly against the grain, how certain is it that the pitot's did "freeze." A considerable amount of money has been well spent changing pitots in the whole Airbus fleet to cover that possibility, but wasn't freezing/blocking just a possibility, not a certainty in this case?
Wish I had the gear deployed in the North Atlantic around the Titanic this week (and a known place to use it in the South Atlantic). As many have said, we need the FDR and CVR to reduce the possibilities to certainties.
GB