Seems like a common thread to quite a few accidents in the last few years is inattention to the correct pitch attitudes. (Think of the initial autopilot disconnect on AF447). In the older types the flight director was a fairly crude device with limited modes so it was taken for granted that you needed to know the raw data attitudes for a given phase of flight and also to monitor carefully that these were being flown correctly.
Last edited by fireflybob; 28th Mar 2016 at 19:36.