Yeah but that QF32 flight bothers me for another reason....there were 5 of them onboard the flightdeck and it still took 2 hrs to get the bird down.
Had there been 2 pilots, would it have taken 5 hrs? Is that reasonable?
A system that spits out 43 ECAM messages in the first ~60 secs and then 10(?) subsequent messages, some contradictory, expecting a 2 man crew to deal with it is a triumph of technology over commonsense isn't it?
Even the 5 man crew admitted the messages were confusing and not assisting the process of building up a mental model of what was going on.