I'm going to make myself a target now...
I don't think this is an "over reliance on automation" issue. It is a "What do you do if your air data system supplies some or totally corrupt data?" problem. No matter what aircraft you fly - glass, steam or otherwise, you have to have something to hang your hat on. A modern aircraft is capable of generating flight path data independent of the air data system and maybe we should start to use this information to get back to "Straight and Level." From a stable platform which is under control (and probably being manually flown) it should be possible to start to work out what has failed and take appropriate action.
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