These planes should have all types of automatic systems keeping the plane in the air no matter what.
Simple point, but quite pertinent, my car senses an obstruction ahead and will take control of steering and braking in order to
avoid collision, why is it not possible for a plane to sense the ground approaching at 180mph ?
if one malfunctioning rogue system puts the plane in a catastrophic dive, the overriding rescue system should cancel it and
return the plane to a level flight at the require altitude.
Christ, we are still light years away from the technology on Star Trek and a thinking Hal 9000 computer.
PS. One for the 9/11 tinfoil hatters, Interesting the small crater, lack of huge bits of wreckage and bodies at the Ethiopian crash site,
the deniers made such a fuss about this at the time of 9/11 when Flight 93 crashed in rural Pennsylvania, they doubted a full sized airliner
could crash and produce such a small crater and evidence a paltry amount of wreckage.