Reading the accounts of the flight deck confusion, does anyone see a similarity between this accident and G-ARPI at Staines, LHR in 1972?
Not really. We don't know what went on on PI's flight deck as there was no CVR back then, but they seemed to simply disbelieve a bit of kit that was known to shout 'wolf' (the stick pusher) because they hadn't noticed an unintended configuration change (droops retracted well below the speed they should have been). They only had a few seconds to suss out the real situation and that wasn't enough time.
In the case of AF 447 the two 'pilots' clearly missed very obvious clues as to what was going on for quite a long time and didn't apply basic techniques in flying the aeroplane.