Thanks
Svarin for the interesting post.
In your first link, the article previous to that was very enlightening and sounds similar to what the AF447 crew may have faced.
AG RVS - Computer-Related Incidents with Commercial Aircraft
It relates to an eerily similar scenario on a B777 off Perth in 2005. (faulty airspeed indications, autopilot 'doing the wrong thing' etc)
Here is a snippet fron the page....
.... we received a recent report of a significant nose-up pitch event on a Boeing Model 777-200 series airplane while climbing through 36,000 feet altitude. The flight crew disconnected the autopilot and stabilized the airplane, during which time the airplane climbed above 41,000 feet, decelerated to a minimum speed of 158 knots, and activated the stick shaker. A review of the flight data recorder shows there were abrupt and persistent errors in the outputs of the ADIRU. These errors were caused by the OPS using data from faulted (failed) sensors.
Makes you think about FBW and 'Byzantine fault' propagation and / or tolerance...