They would have had to have seen it over by the pilots knee, known that that stick was active, and known that the aircraft had switched automatically to ALT2 in the middle of trying to figure out the equipment problem that caused the initial instrument problem.
Normally a full back stick command wouldn’t have stalled the aircraft, but because the airplane entered ALT2 mode automatically the stick allowed the pilot to do something that normally wouldn’t happen. If the pilot had done exactly what he did 5 minutes earlier, the exact same command would have not led to a crash.
In other words, the main control device for the aircraft can do something different depending on circumstance.
This would be like a car steering wheel becoming twice as sensitive when the speedometer malfunctions.
The idea is that, yes, the pilots were trained on this, so it’s their fault no matter how complex the system is.
Normally a full back stick command wouldn’t have stalled the aircraft, but because the airplane entered ALT2 mode automatically the stick allowed the pilot to do something that normally wouldn’t happen. If the pilot had done exactly what he did 5 minutes earlier, the exact same command would have not led to a crash.
In other words, the main control device for the aircraft can do something different depending on circumstance.
This would be like a car steering wheel becoming twice as sensitive when the speedometer malfunctions.
The idea is that, yes, the pilots were trained on this, so it’s their fault no matter how complex the system is.