Thanks! That is reassuring to know. Shouldn't they have used it in this case when they knew an input was jammed? Obviously it worked out when the computer decided to ignore them, but just curious what the correct procedure should have been here.
I should note that I'm not an expert on this subject.
According to the below, Airbus cockpit sidesticks have a red button on them. Pressing it disengages the autopilot if it's engaged, which is probably the more normal use. Pressing it when the autopilot is already disengaged engages sidestick priority for as long as it's held down. It latches if held continuously for 40 seconds.
> “With his feet on the flight deck roof, the co-pilot reached down and attempted to disengage the autopilot by pulling back on his sidestick,”
In this case I don't think they really knew that the issue was the jammed stick before the co-pilot pulling back on his stick gave the flight computer priority. It's hard to really say from the information given exactly when they discovered the camera was jammed and removed it vs when the plane was getting itself back under control.
They also said the captain was pulling back on the stick as well.. or at least ATTEMPTING to. Maybe they're indicating that the stuck camera (which seems to have come unstuck before recovery was complete?) prevented him from doing so.
It would be really weird for both pilots pulling back on the stick to result in a dual input error situation.
