Originally Posted by
GPullR
Um, one the captain pulled a ton of circuit breakers, put plane in direct law and fo was watching . FO turned around and plane was banked 60 plus degrees and nose high. He couldn't overcome with his lack of experience.
You can Google the accident report. The FO was flying when the Captain reset 2 breakers associated with the rudder. This put the aircraft into alternate law and disconnected the autopilot. The copilot was unable to fly the aircraft in alternate law and stalled it. They attempted to recover the aircraft but were working against each other with conflicting stick inputs much like AirFrance. The aircraft was never in direct law.