Shawn, I wouldn't say its not relevant. Clearly the flight crew in the L2 accident, for whatever reason, were not controlling the airspeed with the collective as they should have been. Whether they intended to be in 4-axis and weren't, or whether they decided to fly the whole thing in 3 axis for some reason, we don't know. However it does seem that they mismanaged the partial automation condition. To address that, unfortunately I can't think of a better answer than "more and better training" and to do that, we need representative and reliable Simulators - something which some fleets don't have at the moment.
Start a new thread on Sims if you want (not too FARS-ish if you don't mind - remember they are FAR away from this side of the pond!) and I will participate. Actually it would be interesting to know the differences between the FARs and the EASA equivalent standards and requirements.