Originally Posted by fr8tmastr
I disagree, when the pilot tried to add power and go around the plane would have followed his commands. The aircraft would have not been locked into the landing mode There is no way a lightly loaded airliner can cruise along at 150 feet altitude for over a mile and not accelerate, unless the computer would not allow it, as the computer thought it was time to land. This is why Airbus had to change programming to not allow that scenerio to happen again. Sure the pilots had the plane in the wrong "mode" but once there, they had no ability to fly the aircraft out.
All they had to do was push the little red button on the Joy stick to deactivate the autopilot. Like how hard is that. Than they could have done whatever they wanted with the plane.
I dont know where you guys keep getting this idea the pilots have absolutly no control over an airbus. When the A320 is not in auto pilot, it flies like a normal plane!! The problems only rise when something happens and the pilots keep trying to correct the problem with the computer, when all they have to do is take it off autopilot, PROBLEM SOLVED.
Not in auto pilot=Pilot has full control
In autopilot= Computer has control of the plane, Pilots in control of computer, problem arises pilot may deactivate autopilot