If you have a engine fire and or in flight shutdown whilst your offsider is in the toilet how does the cabin crew member know whether you are following the checklist or trying to kill everyone by turning off the engine and starting a descent?
Or worse still a depressurisation with a rapid descent.
And since when has the Australian government rewritten law based on what is essentially rumour and hearsay?
There is no official report published, the CVR hasn't been released.
For all we know the guy could have had a heart attack, or it could have been another QF style Airbus computer failure, nobody knows, yet the Australian government wants to rewrite the law and make cockpit less secure.
How about we wait until at the very least somebody releases the CVR publicly so we all know this isn't some massive diversion from some other issue.
Remember these CVR leaks are coming from the French Military
I can't help wondering if there may be a case of "Manchurian Candidates"!
To what end? Stop aviation?