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Old 2nd Feb 2016, 15:57
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All this discussion of Airbus flight controls entirely misses the point.

If you hold the controls fully back in a Boeing and indeed almost any other aircraft, you will stall. If you keep them fully back you will stay stalled. This is also true in an Airbus in direct law.

The fact that an Airbus sometimes/usually saves you from yourself and when in direct law does not is hardly an indictment of the entire system.

The starting point of these accidents is pilot incompetence not flight control laws. The reasons for the pilot incompetence are a bigger question, however the aircraft would not have crashed if the pilots had just done nothing.
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