About the choice of the Captain for the crew change (and designation of the PF)
It's some additional stances in the CVR transcript (appendix N°1) of the final report that was not in the interim report N°3
One is about some words of the captain and Bonin just before the entrance of the other copilot in the flight deck (those words were already in some leaks published in the press ... but at time they were not fully credible)
So we read in the transcript: (page 17)
1 h 56 min 16
er who’s doing the
landing, is it you? well
right he’s going to take
my place
1 h 56 min 20
You’re a PL, aren’t
you ?
change in
background noise
1 h 56 min 21 yeah
It is to remind that the crew who perform the flight Rio - Paris is the same that perfomed the flight Paris - Rio some days ago
Seem's to me that the question of the captain is legit
What seems odd to me is the time to ask ....
Is there no sense that the captain knows that consists of his crew and therefore he should have put this question before takeoff from Paris .. some days ago
Some pro can maybe answer ?