Henra,
I think it is not acceptable to post this kind of rubbish about what you call a sub-standard aircraft configuration based on the limited amount of data we have at the moment.
There was a really good discussion going on about the technical aspects.
Can we please refrain from spoiling this with this kind of drivel ?!
Drivel? You got to be kidding me! The only drivel is this that produced by this quasi accident investigation from the BEA.
It is perfectly acceptable to suggest that the aircraft configuration was sub-standard. The BEA report is so vague and ambiguous that it is obviously only possible to make sense of it by some process interpretation, and it is obvious what interpretation was intended. In the course of releaseing such an incomplete picture, it seems that it is perfectly acceptable for the media to insinuate that the pilots were substandard despite the aircraft switching off its warnings and dynamically changing its behaviour during what would be the upset recovery phase of that flight.