CONF iture
Human factors are the vital things to consider here - how the crew reacted to the situation. The sidestick/yoke thing is just window dressing with no real relevance to the accident. There were so many other inputs the crew could have obtained without reference to a hypothetical yoke. What makes you think that given their inability to access the information they had available that a yoke would have made any difference? What you posit is a wish state - you wish that a yoke would have provided the solution because your prejudices are inclined that way. I have no problem with you preferring the yoke but once you depart from the objective standpoint you end up in the area of speculation. We do know the following - the sidestick works and works safely. There are thousands of examples flying around at the moment. The yoke also works and works safely. Like the sidestick it does not guarantee that if a PF does something strange the PNF will react. It is not about being able to see and we have examples of where the PNF could see the yoke and did not act. I would also suggest you consider this point. In a high stress situation your interpretation of the actuallity may be considerably different to what things are. That is why the scan is so important - your instruments will tell you what is actually going on not what you believe the position of the stick is. We have a flight crew non performance here and given the evidence we have this crew would have not been able to deal with the situation no matter what their input device was. That is the sad reality.