PickyPerkins
It might be interesting, and possibly useful, to examine these ten accident reports and compare the situations at the start of each of these events, e.g. how many of them STARTED with a disconnect of the AP?
Would you object to "
apparently started with a disconnect of the AP"?
In the period leading up to the AP disconnect the automation might have adjusted trim, throttle etc away from those usual/appropriate for the phase of the flight. Which would complicate the machine -> human takeover.
For example, the problems facing the turkish crew at Schiphol seem to have been greatly compounded by the heavy trim applied before the AP finally disconnected.