DozyWannabe
Thanks for your comments. A few points:
(1) Definitely one for the human factors experts, but unlikely PNF grasped just how far back/NU the PF's inputs were. Not relevant if CRM is perfect, but there already seems on these threads to be a certain amount of consensus on CRM shortcomings to a differing degree....
(2) As TJHarwood has alluded to, and as someone who "lived" during my early piloting years by my AoA indicator, best not to get me started on the design philosophy that resulted in a stall alarm being repeatedly switched off when the aircraft remained ......... in a stall (however far outside of the designed flight envelope).
(3) I wasn't thinking in terms of the A300, although there were revolutionary aspects, but more in the context of what Lockheed, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas were producing. A different "philosophy".
(4) In this world of aviation deregulation, more than ever, there needs to be a global (i.e. especially USA/EU) regulatory response. No airline will take an expensive lead. AF, for example, had 3 hull losses (2 with heavy fatalities) in a decade, but retains a loyal customer base. It has got to be extreme for an (insured) airline before corporate reputation dictates huge costs on a root and branch training and manual flight expertise revamp.....
Additional costs will have to come down as a level playing field, or it is just about hopeless.