Originally Posted by
compressor stall
it’s a distraction from the arguments at play. On that route 6000 and 1500 were only going to end up in the same state, a couple of miles apart.
If one was going to argue "if only they'd stayed at 6000', then the accident definitely would not have happened"; I agree this is incorrect (although it *might* not have happened - who knows what else might have been different if they had stayed at 6000'). But in the overall context of how they were flying, and their lack of situational awareness, the descent to 1500' as opposed to 6000' is indeed relevant.