Was the Airbus A300/A310 ever supplied with a yoke and not a sidestick?
The sidestick was a design that came about along with the new fly-by-wire technology of the A320 in the late 1980's. The physical leverage of a yoke was no longer needed for flight control cables. The older designs of the A300 and A310 series planes from the 70's and 80's have conventional yoke flight controls.

I would not be surprised to see inaccuracies in TV reenactments, but the yoke did happen to be important in that particular case.