What I am curious now, is what was the input of the pilots and did the aircraft obey them, or did the duped protections still inhibit a eventual stick down input!
Hmmm, I had a similar thought.
Although the protection is only active in Normal Law and can be overridden in Alternate Law (at least that's the case for 320 family)
Whilst I can't be bothered to trawl though the pages of nonsense on this forum I believe I read that the ACARS messages indicated that the aircraft did downgrade to Alternate Law?