Mon Cher Concours77,
Here are the missing pieces of what really happened on the flight deck.
1) Remember that Bonin only had a Frozen Licence.
2) This is why Dubois asked him as he left the flight deck: "T'as le PL, toi?
This is a strange question.
When I hail a taxi, I do not ask the driver if has a licence.
He asked because he knew damn well that Bonin only had a Frozen Licence.
The BEA confirmed this.
The BEA also hashed the DFDR.
An argument ensued following Bonin's answer which is more than just "Oui".
This is where Robert had just entered.
3) All 3 crew failed their recency in 2007.
4) Bonin was a F/A who in 2008 was fast-tracked on to the RH-seat due to
pressures from the Unions.
F/As were exempted from psychometric testing.
In 2008, there were 30 F/As who were fast-tracked at AF.
5) Dubois himself a former F/A only knew too the story as he had become CM1
very late and reluctantly so.
6) The least incompetent was Robert but he was the odd-man-out in Rio as the
other 2 had their respective partners with them.
7) Dubois was standing the whole time because Bonin's wife was in the observer
seat.
8) The whole CRM was just lopsided from the beginning.
Dubois was listening to classical music and commenting an article about tax
havens.
9) Bonin had no idea what ozone and St Elmo's were nor where the Equator was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM3CwBYX-ms