Slats,
It is completely incomprehensible why the captain, after he was summoned back to the cockpit by his crew, made no effort to take control. Indeed, for much of the time he seemed to be little more than a rather distracted observer.
Confiture,
We will never know what the captain was referring to when he uttered "prends ça!" Otelli writes that the BEA investigators thought he meant the Flight Path Vector (the "Bird") in the PFD.
Lyman,
So what if the C Chord seemed intermittent. Surely that alarm would be the least of the crew's worries. The way that plane was rocketing up and dropping back down, it's a wonder the C Chord generator didn't burn out.