Originally Posted by
A320LGW
It certainly does, the ATR has all the bells and whistles, except for autothrottle!
1. They (Captain essentially) blatantly and recklessly disregarded what any sensible crew would do.
2. Once below DA, the Workload went significantly UP, and the Situational Awareness plummeted.
Failed to appreciate the Rad Alt, and for that manner the Altimeters.
3. They would both have got one hell of a fright when sea contact was made.
Just what the CCM and the passengers thought, and what they were eventually told or learnt sometime later has not been disclosed.
4 Had any Brits been on board then the Daily Mail / Sun would have been hot on the trail.
Still hard to believe such an event occurred.