"Insult" duly retracted. BTW some would say Jeremiah was right all along!
I have no connection with FSTA, I fly Airbus which is my only connection to them. My only experience of AAR is as a receiver and is irrelevant to this incident. There is every point in considering the integrity of sidestick operations in all sidestick operated aircraft. The 'almost disaster' was as a result of the actions of a pilot, the result would have been far worse in an aircraft without the normal law protection offered by Airbus.
Now I believe the thread was not about the rights or wrongs of FSTA, but about a specific incident, which is independant of FSTA and could have happened to any Airbus 330. It just happened to be one flown by the RAF in fewer hours than I have on Airbus.