I wonder if everybody is barking up the wrong tree, so to speak. I’ve ben in a bad tstorm and had sudden icing before. Airspeed drops suddenly and falsly, pilots nose DOWN. I feel this is more likely a computer fault. For example, in the F-16, when it get into a deep stall the computer overrides the pilot input and commands max nose down elevator. There is a pitch overide switch to turn the flight control computer off and allow the pilot to pull the nose up and then push down to “rock” the plane out of the deep stall. Since the 330 is also fly by wire I wonder if the computer wa overiding the pilot inputs. Nothing more frusterating than when you are telling an airplane to do something and it’s doing something else. Trust me. But now a days the engineers know best. And most of them are not even pilots....
Do you know about the AF296 crash? Watch the video and find out what happens when an Airbus flight computer and a pilot fight with each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX4_Ho992TQ