After any accident involving an Airbus, there are always lengthy threads populated by old timers writing with the Star Spangled Banner proudly playing in the background that everything was safer in their day (despite all the evidence to the contrary), that the cause of all Airbus crashes is 'HAL', and that none of this would have happened if the computers were just turned off and pilots allowed to fly the plane.
Maybe there are impressionable types who don't appreciate this for what it is (Luddism mixed with a healthy dose of jingoism), and maybe there is a responsibility for some PPRuNe posters to cut some of the crap... Worth thinking about.
Brave words. The pax on this ill-fated flight can take comfort that they were martyrs for the anti-Luddite movement.
