In the confusion of the moment, it appears to me that this crew then followed these new FD modes.
This one sentence sums up everything I dislike about the final report.
It seems to me that there are two areas of wide-spread agreement.
(1) The pilots were confused about what was happening to them.
(2) Despite this confusion they acted.
There is no widespread agreement as to
why they acted the way they did.
Instead, the report describes an olio of pet agendas including confusing technology, psychological error, training issues, etc. To mix a metaphor, in response to this cloud of unknown gnats BEA loads its formidable cannon of recommendations with grapeshot, praying that somehow one of those little lead balls will hit the little gnat actually responsible.
Complex systems fail in complex ways but that's no excuse for making hash.
