“A320’s flight-protection system “
Translation: Socialist Euroweenies trying to tell pilots how to fly a plane. A computer system you cannot trust, so the pilots felt they needed to eliminate it from their problems and turned it off.
Airbus is a dangerous aircraft.
Automatic Flight Control Systems and Stability Augmentation Systems are pretty standard and politically agnostic. What are you trying to say?
Exactly. A cacophony of warnings alerts lead to extreme pilot sensory overload in a already intense situation. Pilots were trying to fly the plane and likely pulled the computer plug just shut off the alarms so they could simply gain control and fly the plane.
They did land on a comet...
Although I am no aviation expert, isn’t “trust your instruments” a pretty common saying?