Thanks checkerboard.. Would the crew have changed screens in their situation if the flight vector had not been selected / knocked out?
True, the AOA data would have also been false due to lack of airspeed on the vane and may have been another inject to make a bad situation even worse.. However it might have done the opposite to confirm what state the aircraft really was in..
EDITED.. Other posters have stated that such infomation was knocked out with the first ACARS messages.