Originally Posted by NigelOnDraft
None whatsoever to you & me - but to the Airbus bashers, it means it was the Airbus' fault that when a pilot held the stick back and flew to a crazily low speed (AF447 & Perpignon)
The pilots @ Perpignan were pushing their sticks forward once the upset because apparent, not back. They apparently had not seen the "USE MAN TRIM" warning on centre display. The AP had commanded full nose up trim just prior to that, causing the elevator deflection the control sticks could commands to be too small to recover the aircraft before it stalled.
I'm not blaming or bashing anyone or anything, just stating it as it was.
The extreme nose up attitude and then sudden drop toward the ocean AirAsia is tracked to have done is remarkably similar to the Perpignan crash, just higher in altitude.