However, in α-protection mode, the flight control system incorporates a phugoid-damping feedback term in addition to side stick commands when computing the commanded elevator position.
It was the duty of the BEA, 20 years earlier, to detail such characteristic.
NTSB has done what BEA failed to do.
Reference 8 documents an Airbus simulation of the last 300 ft of the flight, and indicates that the airplane was performing as designed
When the design prevents Sully to obtain a better touchdown, and Asseline, as wrong as he was in the first place, to avoid the trees, the design must be firstly detailed, and secondly can be questioned.