Originally Posted by
ferry pilot
You have to wonder if this was not the first rodeo for this crew. The only way anyone could be
“ comfortable” in those circumstances would be from experience you don’t get by straightening up and flying right. There may be much more to this story than what is on those recorders.
This is, I think, an important observation - for at least one of the flight crew it seems that this approach appeared 'doable'. How did he (or they) arrive at that conclusion?
ATC were aware of abnormalities - was their intervention also routine, something that happens every day?