@jcjeant - Fair point, but you're forgetting that engineering is the art of compromise in order to achieve specified goals. As far as I know this particular A330 is pretty much the only aircraft of its size and configuration to end up in that situation, and right at this moment I don't see many pilots queueing up to test a similar envelope excursion in a B767, B777, DC-10, MD-11, A300, L-1011, or Il-8/96 to see how those systems fare in such a predicament.