Originally Posted by
EDLB
And even if they did. I can not see a reason why two captains kill themself and 90+ people in a serviceable airplane in Cavoc conditions. You know 20 minutes in advance, that this glide path will not work. One captain with 17000 hours has seen a 3 degree profile multiple thousand of times out his window. A 7.5 degree profile looks a lot different. Sure you can do that in a SEP floatplane or a Soyuz capsule hanging on a parachute, but not with a clean airliner. Why they continued with this stunt the recorders will hopefully tell. You got a Corona empty airspace with bored ATC, so why rush this approach? A circle anywhere and they could have established a nice glidepath.
About rust, sure, but do you think you are unfit to drive a car after a few weeks pause?
You got two experienced guys in row 0. So why did they kill themself? That is the riddle the investigation has to find out.
There were no 2 captains but an FO with low time got to know through someone who flys for PIA.