>>1241093Pulling circuit breakers in flight is a safe thing to do in an Airbus. There wouldn't be accessible circuit breakers if it was dangerous.
That said, the fact was that the Capt. immediately decided to pull the circuit breaker instead of following Standard Operating Proceedures, which upon acknowledging a Master Caution in an Airbus must be completion of ECAM Actions and then checking for anything blue on the ECAM, would then be followed up with looking up the Quick Reference Handbook.
If I were the Capt. I would complete the ECAM actions, check for "ECAM any blue", look at the secondary failures (if any), consult the QRH and then make the decision to divert to the nearest airport, because of a control surface failure of some kind.
The fact that the Capt. immediately decided to give control to his F/O so that he could get out of his seat to pull the circuit breaker for the Flight Augmentation Computer to force the aircraft into Alternate Law was a serious breach of SOP.
The Capt. then never told his F/O "I have control" when he wanted to take control of the plane, and he then proceeded to tell his F/O "Pull Down", which confused him, causing him to pull up on the sidestick while creating a "Dual Input", which there was no aural warning for, as the stall warning was active.
It was an incompetent Capt. who should have never been a PIC, with a F/O who was an inexperienced pilot, flying an aircraft which should have been AOG until the maintainence crew worked out why there were 23 Rudder Travel Limiter faults in the past year.
