Originally Posted by joema
In the AF447 case, both pilots were also pressing their "takeover priority" button trying to lock each other out. Each time they did this an additional red warning light notified the locked out pilot his stick was taken over, plus an additional "priority left/right" voice warning. They obviously knew the other pilot was interfering, else they wouldn't be fighting over the controls -- repetitively.
... far from it according to the published data ... What are your sources ?