[TalonDJ]

They should have been able to recover if the computer let them.

BS. They should have been flying to plane instead of dorking around with computer reboots. They flew into a huge storm on autopilot and then freaked out when the autopilot could not handle it. If they had just used their backups and flown the darn plane they might have lived. The computer did not kill them. The computer flew the plane for as long as it was able and then handed control back to them when things got outside it's parameters. They fumbled the pass. I mean seriously... flying into a huge storm with the aircraft commander in the can?

[driftdiver]

“BS. They should have been flying to plane instead of dorking around with computer reboots.”

Can you fly those planes without the computer?

[CodeToad]

“They should have been flying to plane instead of dorking around with computer reboots.”

Except with the Airbus the computer is what flies the plane. There is no direct controls to engine/control surfaces interaction. If that flight computer fails then so does the ability to control the aircraft.

If you could see the booger eating morons that develop flight computers you would never get on an airplane.