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grizzled
Dozy... IanW's comments and yours are not mutually exclusive. Both factors were at play here...
Agreed - I intended the cross post to suggest an "as well as" rather than "instead of", though I remain to be convinced that the PNF had much trouble understanding what the aircraft was telling him. The PF... not so much.
Old Carthusian - I don't know if it was "panic" causing the PF to make the inputs he did, but his actions certainly suggest him developing a degree of tunnel vision from the start of the sequence. We can't know if he heard the PF call out "Alternate Law", he certainly didn't interpret "Controls on the left" as the PNF saying "I have control".