I wonder if they put a (pair of) faulty/miscalibrated AOA sensor(s) in the craft when the head cheese was riding along? Or at least simulated the faulty sensor(s)?
It's all well and good to fly with perfect inputs to test the patch, but if the crash scenario had faulty inputs, then you need to feed in faulty inputs to test for proper behavior of the patch.
Otherwise it's a publicity stunt, and nothing more.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
