Originally Posted by
Gretchenfrage
Take the AB’s absence of tactile feedback, many accidents and inquiries do not directly blame it on this flaw, but any sharp reader can deduct that if it was present, there would have been a higher chance of not leading to catastrophe.
In order to do so, then your "sharp reader" would have to dismiss out of hand the documented evidence showing exactly the same kind of mishaps happening to aircraft with conventional controls roughly as often (for AF447, read Birgenair 301 and NWA 6231 - and for LH in Hamburg read the recent Southwest prang at LGA). To call what is actually a design *difference* a flaw is a misnomer, because the design has not resulted in any more mishaps than the other kind, and the length of reliable service this design has given thus far clearly refutes the doom-and-gloom predictions of the naysayers.