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Yes that was the Air France flight, an Airbus A340. The crash was caused in part by Airbus insistence on letting the computer make assumptions. The pilots were giving opposite pitch inputs on their controls, and the computer averaged the two competing inputs. On the Airbus there is no feedback between the two sets of flight controls. On a Boeing if the yoke is moved on one side of the cockpit, the other yoke moves in unison so each pilot can feel what the other is doing. In the Air France flight one pilot was trying to pitch the plane down because a malfunctioning pitot tube was giving a false low air speed indication and he thought he was preventing a stall. The other pilot was trying to pitch up to avoid crashing, but his inputs were basically being canceled out by the computer averaging with the other pilot's inputs.They both make solid aircraft, but I prefer Boeing's philosophy.
