CONF iture
the third guy is always suddenly so much 'smarter', you can see so much more by just seating on that third seat.
Unfortunately, the third guy realized the aircraft had entered Direct Law, but I
perceive that his announcement, "
We are in manual", may have been the wrong words to use in the multi-lingual cockpit.
Bis47
AoA indication is in itself a protection ... And they failed to notice that that protection didn't display a value coherent with the slow speed.
AoA indication is always available, but not normally used in everyday "line ops". The fact that the erroneous AoA position wasn't noted, was essentially because the consequences of what they were proposing to do hadn't been raised, and therefore nor had the relevance of the AoA.
mm43