Coagie,
Although Airbus could make some improvements, like having the aircraft default to a safe power and pitch, when the airspeed is unknown, I have to put the blame on Air France for not properly training it's pilots in the case of the AF447 crash.
I agree with you 100%. Since the day of the crash there has been endless speculation on why the A330 failed. From theories on the VS snapping off to uncontrolled dives to engine failure, computer malfunction/interface etc...
But as we know now the pilots were helpless in trying to figure out the situation they helped create. The blame is with Air France and there procedures...
This was the "perfect storm" scenario, the result of a chain of misguided decisions starting with flying through bad weather, the captain leaving the flight deck at a critical stage of the flight and leaving the least experienced pilot in control, the failed Pitot tubes (weather related) and then of course the pull back on the SS. It all wreaks of poor training and procedures...