>>...recommending mandatory training for all pilots to help them fly planes manually...<<
If ever I had a “WTF” moment, this would be it.
In other words, Airbus has a bad history of over-reliance on autopilot. I’d like to know what the pilot was looking at while the stall alarm was blaring.
Rule #1 is to keep the plane flying. If the Airbus crew was so used to letting all of the computers do the actual ‘work’, and didn’t have enough experience manually flying the plane, then this was just an accident waiting to happen. AF crew flying into the trees at an airshow also comes to mind.