Oh dear.
I think it's time to officially add Dozy's addendum to Godwin's Law here, namely:
"As a PPRuNe discussion involving Airbus continues, the probability of someone bringing up Habsheim and concierges approaches 1."
This may sound a little presumptuous of me, but I think I can get away with saying that Habsheim is
not relevant to this incident or this discussion. Feel free to PM me if you want to know why. Regarding Ziegler and his oft-quoted "concierge" remark, he didn't say anything about his concierge being able to fly it in a degraded control mode or damaged state, so can we please leave that tangent there?
As it happens I'd be willing to go to the mat and bore for England on the subject of
Titanic as well, but again it really isn't relevant to the case we're discussing.
It's pretty clear to me that until new information is released, this subject has been discussed to a standstill.