Extra safety features that were available would not have helped those lost souls. The fact is that when the plane began to dive the pilot should have disabled the auto pilot and mcas and took control. Instead the pilot decided to pray. This was all covered by the training that the pilot skipped out on. It is pretty sad that they are now trained to be more dependent on the auto pilot rather than the manual ability to fly. This should make everyone weary of their cars sitting in their driveways. In 10 yrs or so of using this automation to drive many will be as naive as this pilot was.