What being children of magenta, following FDs blindly got to do with this incident? The pilot simply had no idea what to do with vertical displacement closer to runway. By disconnecting automation he wasn't going to get some revelation about what to do. Without any plan in mind he should have declined the offer. But if he wanted to give it try he had to create high ROD at slow speed and not by diving at high speed in clean configuration. Just pull the speed brake(initially), put gear down and configure all the way to Vapp and then descend at the resultant high ROD and would have made it. He went Karachi PIA way. Didn't they fly manually and still crash?