Originally Posted by
awblain
I did find an interesting site where there's photos of someone carrying away the blackboxes...
Regardless of what the site says, no-one has ever confirmed that the flight recorder cases in that photo were the ones recovered from the aircraft. It's possible that those were just dummy cases shown to the recovery workers so that they'd know what to look for.
Alpha Max is an internal designation - it is not a universally recognised variable. Airbus never claimed that Alpha Prot would deliver a max AoA equivalent to the edge of stall, just that it would maintain an AoA short of stall while providing as much of the demanded pitch attitude within the safe boundary as it could.