If that is the truth, then the Captain is a true hero.
He just didn’t realize quite fast enough what was actually going on. Not faulting him - who would think that that’s what was happening?
In the wake of this kind of problem, people will be wondering why airlines can’t arrange to have ground crews take remote command of aircraft whose crews are in trouble or “misbehaving.”
It’s implementation issues. A remote control would make hijacking possible too in principle. Pilots would not like it any more than they liked the idea of “black boxes” that they could not erase on successful landing (i.e. the chance for being second guessed).
My thoughts exactly. He went down fighting! Hoo ya Capt.