If the A320 were to be redesigned to prevent this kind of accidents, it would have been designed with the resilience-oriented features as follows:
The
specification document would include a definition of the operational
scenarios and
situations, and of the expected combinations of them, defining the
design scope .
The
control of the
Primary operation mode may be normally manual. It could be automatic in special case.
The system response to changing the safety
mode should depend on the entity
at the helm .
Updated on 16 May 2016.