Multiple reports cite the controls issue as contributing to the incident, e.g.: CBS News aviation and safety expert Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger explai

Multiple reports cite the controls issue as contributing to the incident, e.g.: CBS News aviation and safety expert Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger explained that he believes that the disappearance would have been less likely to have happened if the plane had been a Boeing instead of an Airbus. This is because the control wheels are larger and more obvious. <https://web.archive.org/web/20130608033135/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57587193/four-years-later-lessons-from-air-france-flight-447 https://web.archive.org/web/20130608033135/http://www.cbsnew...> (More in the previously-linked Wikipedia article.)