Clandestino;
We didn't call it ALT1 and ALT2 when I was on 319. Their rough equivalents are "alternate with reduced protections" and "alternate without protections" (nitpickers, welcome).
An excellent point.
Though the PNF called Alternate Law, there doesn't appear to have been any recognition of the different "flavors", or was there?
At 02:10:17 the PNF stated "Alternate law protections (law/low/lo)" and as we are not privy to the annunciation, particularly the last word, neither can we be sure what the PF actually heard and/or interpreted. I offer that what the PNF may have said in English/French was, "
Alternate law, protections allé (gone)". If that was the case, the PNF certainly had reason to "panic" when he noted the actions of the PF, who was ostensibly the PIC. Or was this "panic" also partly that of "fundamental surprise" brought about by the complete lack of CRM being demonstrated.
The Three Mile Island nuclear accident alluded to by
safetypee and the "fundamental surprise" aspects the nuclear industry learned from that, could equally have words like "aviation industry" and "Airbus Industrie" substituted in the document to demonstrate that
maybe there is a fuse burning somewhere.
We all know of the saying, "Turkeys don't vote for Christmas". Problem is that turkeys don't know about Christmas, and therefore voting for or against it is not an issue.
The same can not be said for all aspects of the Aviation Industry, and a good reason to look again at some of the fundamental issues that have become hidden because they have up until now not been an issue.