Confiture :
I don't know, but it's common knowledge that the disconnect button was held down, thus not only disconnecting, but also disabling A/THR.
DozyWannabe don't know but keeps pushing theories based on common knowledge.
Waiting for the facts not common knowledge ...
Easy. Just the BEA official report :
§1-11-3 :...
at the beginning of the taxi to takeoff, FO asks Capt to confirm his intentions for the fly-pasts... Capt says he will perform the first presentation with config 3, gear down at 100 ft and max AoA, the alpha floor function disabled... FO wil manually adjust thrust in order to maintain level flight...
and on the dfdr reading at 12.41.58 : "
Je déco... braye l'automation ( "I discon...disable the automatics...")In >french, déconnecté -disconnected - is not débrayé - disabled, taken off-line. Capt's reverting on the correct term is quite telling.
As it ghappens, the disabling of the Alpha floor function didn't have any influence onj this accident, as they went quickly below 100 ft, when they wenht first into C* - i.e N demand around 1G- and then into pitch ref function.
Apparently, Dozy has a very good memory... unlike some here.