Originally Posted by
Airbubba
Which begs the question, were the throttles still at max all the way down and if so why?
And was the autopilot really on until impact?
Don't know for sure, but the quote about fighting the automation was from Greig Feith, former NTSB guy (
https://aeronauticsonline.com/ntsb-r...air-767-crash/) He must still have contacts on the board, I would think. Supposedly, according to the article, they managed to reduce the pitch to only 20 degrees nose low, but it sure doesn't look like that on the video clip that was posted online showing it just prior to impact. The story originally said that the speed was close to 500 kts at impact, but that part seems to have been edited out of the story now. Sure hope it wasn't intentional.