[Jack Hydrazine]

Take a look at the Air France 296 crash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX4_Ho992TQ

The computer locked the pilots out of the controls and had a 10+ degree positive nose pitch while flying down the runway and crashed into the trees at the end.

I think AF447 flight computer shut down and locked the pilots out controlling the aircraft. Airbus should be sued for this.

[Ragnar54]

Air France uses "pilot error" to explain a lot. In explaining how another Airbus had a rudder problem leading to a crash in 2001:

The most deadly event was the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587, in which 265 people died when the plane's vertical stabilizer tore off soon after takeoff. Investigators blamed that crash on "over use" of the rudder pedal by the co-pilot.

[Tzfat]

The computer locked the pilots out of the controls and had a 10+ degree positive nose pitch while flying down the runway and crashed into the trees at the end.

The "computer" did exactly what it was designed to do in that case. Disinformation about the "computers" in Airbus aircraft is almost comical. I have flown the Airbus family aircraft for over 10 years. They are well designed and well built.

[John S Mosby]

Controls on Airbus are single hand, like a computer game. Why Airbus’s are routinely referred to as “PacMan”. The so-called brain locking out pilot control is recurring event in many crashes. Airbus should be sued out of existence.