Air France A330 accident
I know of the seriousness of this accident and the loss of life on the part of all passengers and Air France crew so this a very sad thread. My heart goes out for all of those involved. However when flying as a passenger I shall never stop flying with AF.
My comments are more related to the automated computer systems involved in modern airbus aircraft. For example one theory is that when the ASI's shut down, then also so did the onboard computer. Since us pilots know it's even possible to fly without ASI using the standard operating procedures to avoid an alleged high altitude stall I would like to pose the following question to fellow pilots:
Would we prefer the onboard computer to reset the flight controls into the mode of standard operating procedures giving us time to take over?
Or would we prefer the onboard computer to simply shut down and give us a 100 error messages while we try to figure things out?