I'm not going to get further into the connected yoke vs. side stick debate - I'm obviously biased (for some strange reason I think the Boeing system is better
). But something else keeps coming back to me.
As an engineer, the idea that you could pull back full, at any flight condition (but especially at cruise), and hold it there for more than a handful of seconds (never mind minutes) without stalling the airplane defies physics (unless you're talking a fast jet or stunt plane, which would pull a loop). So I'm left with two options:
1) Bonin honestly thought he couldn't stall an A330, or
2) Bonin lacked the most fundamental understanding of how airplanes work
Both come back to training.
