@Parkfell
Certain aspects similar to AF447.
Question: would this be likely to have happened had it been a Boeing?
Airbus far better flight deck, and easier to fly with everything functioning normally.
However, when things start to go wrong, want would you rather be flying?
It boils down to knowing your a/c and not getting behind its situation.
In both this incident and AF447 the central issue appears to be PF failing to adapt/recognize the a/c changing from Normal Law to Alternate Law.
- In Normal Law with protections a full stick back input is safe/helpful.
- In Alternate Law a full stick back input is potentially fatal/detrimental.
The biggest strength of airbus being unstallable is turning out to be its biggest weakness i.e. are pilots affected by a denial or state of disbelief when confronted with a stall.
This issue was addressed in AF447 BAE final report. Clearly there is much more to be done to prevent future recurrence of highly experienced bus pilots entering stall and failing to recover.
Airbus is amazingly safe equipment so long as it is not flown into the ground when the protections are turned off.