Quoting CON fiture:-
'at FL350 with no A/THR the output is absolutely the same whatever the thrust levers position from CLB to MCT to TOGA.'
Sincerely hope that I've misunderstood, CON fiture?
You appear to be saying that, due to a total lack of logic in the Airbus auto-throttle controls, the unfortunate AF447 pilots spent most of their last three minutes on this Earth pissing about with throttle settings like CLB, MCT, TOGA, and whatever - but that ALL of those settings simply resulted in no change at ALL in the actual power generated by the engines - which remained at TO/GA?
As a law graduate, on the face of it, I'd say that if that's even halfway true, it provides adequate evidence for the designers of any such systems (AND their parent companies) to face manslaughter charges, at the very least?
Almost can't believe that any designers could generate systems which were THAT stupid?
That being said you combine that with a junior pilot that insists on pulling the SS up for over a minute while the stall warning is going off without realizing he is stalling and his 2nd pilot not correcting him for over 3 minutes gives no chance of survival. Stupid was not just the engineering, it was the pilots too.
No experienced pilot would pull up continuously with a stall warning blaring for almost a minute. I don't care how many other alarms were going off, that one is the big one, ignore the others.