Thomas Borchert writes:

I'm sure most remember that was not at all what happened. Red faces all
over Air France when their hot shot demo pilot had a "Hey, watch this"
moment.

Especially when his stunt exposed serious problems with the aircraft
fly-by-wire software ... serious enough to require doctoring the black box so
that nobody would find out about them. That was when I wrote Airbus off
permanently. Safety obviously wasn't a priority.

Stranger still was declaring the pilot mentally unbalanced after the incident.
He had been one of their best pilots. Either they were lying about his mental
state, or they were admitting that their best pilots are mentally unbalanced;
neither conclusion is particularly reassuring.