I just dropped by to see if you guys were talking about this and...yeah, that was my opinion too...these AB crashes, air france, air asia seem to be related.

on NOVA, they showed the same failures, pitot tube/sensor blockage "unreliable air/alt" in the AB simulator and the instructors were quick on the fix. This episode aired before they found the black box from the Air France crash but they disconnect AP, use back ups to manually keep the nose at something like 4 degrees up and 82-85% N1 which seemed simple enough to me and something every pilot would know about for the particular plane they were flying.

I just read the last AirAsia went into a near immediate climb and stall...I don't think it's been made official yet but...

More of the same? people becoming too dependent on computers to fly? Children of magenta?

Glad to hear the Lufthansa crew knew to pull the breaker. That would be terrifying not to be able to disconnect the AP :o