jcjeant, being afflicted by fear or mental anguish is irrelevant if the problem was dying, don't you think?
I suppose that the lawyers want to play the drama queens, so perhaps you are right.
As to your attempt to read the Captain's mind:
Given that he had to walk up a 10-12 degree nose up incline to get to the bloody cabin, of course he asked "what are you doing" as soon as he got in, given that he had turned the aircraft over at altitude in level cruise.
EDIT: I may have the time line all screwed up there, the nose may not have been that high as he responded to the call from the LH seat pilot.
Also, of course he asked "what are you doing" when he showed up, since he'd been paged less than thirty minutes after turning over the aircraft to his two subordinates.
He needed to know WTF was going on since what should have been happening was the plane proceeds toward Paris, as they had briefed, at altitude in level flight, at cruise airspeed.
We may also make the estimation that he had not fallen asleep, and that the roll excursions that went on initially had gotten his attention, and he wanted to know WTF was going on with all of this back and forth with the wings when the plane should be level at cruise ...
Last edited by Lonewolf_50; 27th February 2013 at 20:34.