Btw you may want to read about Bernard Ziegler. He was the guy who pushed very hard for Airbus to adopt digital FBW sidesticks and for the industry to accept the new system.
I understand M. Ziegler was a key figure in the development of the Airbus FBW system. In an ironic twist, I also understand in 2006 the French courts placed Ziegler under a manslaughter charge stemming from the the Colmar crash in 1992. I am guessing he was not found to be guilty here.
In talking with a friend yesterday (prompting this post) I was surprised to learn of M. Ziegler's cowboy stunt in an F-84 in the early 1960's led to the deaths of six people traveling on aerial trams. Were there no charges made against him back then? Ziegler's father, Henri, was highly influential in the upper echelons of French government. Perhaps he 'saved' his son the 'trouble' of facing criminal charges?