No, JC, I don't know where his right hand was when the AP disconnected but how many pilots on this thread guard the side stick during cruise? I would guess none. I never guarded the yoke because it was so easy to reach and a waste of time. Once in an MD80 I was flying into Atlanta on a cat 1 and below 300 ft in the clouds the plane went into a right bank and AP and AT clicked off. I recovered and landed but who knows what the AP is going to do before it disconnects. That is why we have pilots to fix those things. I can not see any reason to pull all the way back on a yoke because I lost airspeed, can you? Maybe Airbus teaches alpha protection rules that I chose not to learn by not flying it but it didn't work very well this time. Maybe airlines should make sure that their pilots can handle unreliable airspeed problems without losing control as obviously happened here.