Originally Posted by
HarryMann
No, there are plenty of other reasons for not doing that... one being that the aircraft simply 'could not be put in that situation'
Harry, I don't mean to nag like an old fishwife, but what is your source for that assertion, and if you do have one, how old is it?
Airbus themselves have been perfectly willing to accept the possibility of their FBW aircraft being "stall-capable" in degraded control laws, and have been quite open about it since at least the mid-'90s.