If the PNF had a yoke in front of him flailing all over the place mostly in his lap don't you think he would have responded and put it where it was required to be for the no airspeed situation? I know the yoke costs money and weight but isn't it a wonderful way to see what your fellow pilot is doing? Maybe Airbus should put yokes back in their aircraft.
What the lawyers lawsuits are going to cost them negates all the years of SS controls to reduce weight and cost.
This could happen again.
Recovering a Cessna 152 from a students stall is easy with dual yokes. It would be more problematic with a side stick of Airbus design.