[hga]

That's demanding rather a lot from a human on the ground.

The Boeing (and I'm sure others) design philosophy is "unsynchronized joysticks ARE A TERRIBLE IDEA", and if Airbus and Air France had use the normal synchronized yokes, the problem of the brain wedged junior pilot would have been quickly apparent.

Can you think of other examples?

BTW, it's guessed that iced up pitot tubes caused the autopilot to disengage.

You're also assuming the pilots would listen to a kibitzer from afar while struggling to fix their plane. Plus a hell of a lot of expensive technology to support all that. And expensive kibitzers looking over the pilot's shoulders, which the latter wouldn't like.

[m4x]

I agree that a better fix would have been to have synchronised joy sticks, but that doesn't negate the usefulness of telemetry

I'm aware that the pitot tubes iced over, but they de-iced long before the point of no return

And I bet the pilots would have listened to a 'kibitzer'. The senior pilot actually told the junior one to stop pulling up, knowing it would cause problems, and would presumably have taken control more forcefully if he'd been aware that the junior pilot had resumed pulling up after bein asked to stop. He just didn't know. Better communication, syncd joysticks or telemetry could all have helped make him aware of that.