Even worse would be if back up air data sensors along with a 4 channel AOA failure could cause the flaps to freeze and lock in what ever position they are in at time of failure.
Hard knock life lesson of this and likely other Airbus events: live by the computer... die by the computer. Whoops!
There’s a reason tail-dragger pilots are, by and large, considered better pilots than their tricycle gear counterparts. A: They don’t use training wheels. B: They use their innate learned skills which are honed by their peculiar developed talents associated with control of something akin to a Tasmanian devil .
Pilots capable of controlling an aircraft via inputs of a physical nature, otherwise known as flying by the seat of their pants, versus- the fly by wire technique, AND, wherein in this instance means TOTAL fly by wire mode, with little to no physical counter measure, results in- said catastrophe.
Not that a pilot with 20,000 plus flying hours wouldn’t be trying to fly the damn thing all the way in... an object quite literally weighing something like 400,000lbs but (NOW) configured into an aerodynamic shape resembling a wood burning locomotive.
A-wood-burning-lo-co-mo-tive. (for emphasis)