[bongodriver]

"Potential" means what it means : this is not what has happened for sure.

Understood and merely suggested no excuses are being made at this time....

A pitot is not a static pressure probe for a barometric alt indication or I might have loose some years of engineering in the move

Obviously I can't comment on the Airbus system but the pitot probes on the Learjet 45 are combined pitot/static probes, as far as I know this is a common arrangement on most civil trasports these days, subject to the nature of a failure then it is possible to loose both sources of data.

Also no stick shaker on the 'Bus as it was already pointed out (side stick)

Yes I know, wasn't using this example in relation to the event in question, just a small insight into techniques used to recover from adverse situations, it only applies to aircraft with a yoke.......i.e. boeing and everything else appart from Airbus.