This, and the Thessaloniki incident, are all taking about the captain did this to screw up he kept digging etc. In TSL the operator might have a cockpit gradient and culture problem. This has been mentioned for years and the MCC CRM courses in western airlines are supposed to have levelled one and eradicated the other. Yet this is AF; a major ancient player.
In both cases a perfectly sensible (hopefully), educated, qualified, intelligent individual = F/O sat and watched while some other clown tried to kill him, yet did not a lot to help his survival. That leads to 2 questions. How did the clown get to be in LHS in the first place and then dig this hole? And why did the F/O stare death in the face so meekly?