Quote Originally Posted by dougair View Post
I’ve flown plenty of aircraft but never a commercial airline, is there not a way to deactivate the auto elements and take pure manual control of these aircraft?

In an emergency surely the primary concern of the crew is to fly the aircraft? That is obviously difficult if you’re fighting against the aircraft itself which is also trying to ‘fly’ the aircraft!
You may find your answer in one of these two videos:



...this one is longer, more 'newsy' and less technical: