That is exactly what I am saying. The recordings don't tell you why they did what they did.
Check this one out. It was initially blamed on the pilots (Helios Airways Flight 522). Do some search and see for yourself how many accidents have been blamed on the pilots initially. It is just cheaper for the airlines and the airplane makers.
Who else besides the Pilots CAN you blame this one one?
Facts are:
-They flew into a storm they should NOT have (it's still unknown why they chose to fly into that monster storm)
-They lost airspeed data.
-They have an SOP to follow in the event of loss of airspeed data. (the same Airbus model had had several previous pitot icing incidents, all ended safely)
-They DID NOT follow that procedure, which lead to an extreme AOA near the flight ceiling, and stall, from which they did not and/or could not recover.
Other factors are probably the fact that they where getting bombarded with system warnings incipient to the pitot failures, and they where likely getting bounced around like crazy in that storm.
I'm not ragging on pilots at all, I trust them with my life every time I fly without a second thought, just like I trust the mechanics, and controllers with my life as well every time I fly. But the facts are that nearly all commercial aviation accidents are attributed to "Human Factors" whether those humans are the pilots the mechanics/techs or a combination of both.
When maintained and operated within the proper parameters the machines themselves are very, very safe.... ...the weakest link in aviation safety is the human being, that's just the way it is. Fortunately incidents like this are very, very rare, and flying is still safer then just about anything else I do everyday.