Bewildered. I can usually come up with some bit of lateral thinking that would explain things, at least is someone's universe, but not for this. Given their speech wasn't slurred (ATC data) then there's not much left but a native incompetence that has been rescued time and again with automation. But I somehow I even doubt that.
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The only thing I can come up with is that the crew panicked and were no longer capable of thinking logically. Was it fear of punishment if they went around? Was it stress from being stood down and thinking they would be out of work again? No-one will ever know. I don't agree that it was native incompetence but in my mind the only thing that can explain such irrational decision making is panic by the PIC which affected the F/O. How do you counter that? I don't think you can as it is an individual response and will only manifest itself in unusual circumstances.