IF789/AZR/Lyman
Three A320 hull losses between 1988 and 1992, essentially because the flight crew and the aircraft were on a different "wavelength" i.e. unfamiliarity issues.
Notice any similarities between the Air Inter flight crew's discomfort with having to suddenly make a non-precision landing at Strasbourg and the AF447 F/Os discomfort at having to take manual control at FLT350 (no visual aid, not even moonlight)?
AF447 is so depressing because it is 17 years later, and we have another total disconnect between a flight crew and their aircraft.
Simulator (AB speak) - learn to fly (typerating) direct law, progress to alternate law, round-off with normal law? Gate to gate, every time. All sides of the industry implicated, not just manufacturers or a specific manufacturer (SS/feedback issues notwithstanding vis-a-vis AB).
Commercial pressures? Non fici facio, vera prae ceteris - as Davies would say. Get it sorted. Thanks to automation, properly used, there has never been so little excuse for an air crash.....