Hey Blackmail,
when I read through the descript of the Voice recorder, I was thinking pretty much the same as you. It is really hard to understand, that the FO just sits there and shouts: Overbank! Instead of grabbing the controls.
In fact the accidents reminds me a bit of the B757 which plunged into the sea of the Dom. Republic a few years ago, operated by a turkish crew.
I might create a stir here, but I dare to say, that if this aircraft was flown by an crew from maybe a different part of the world, which practises hand flying once in a while with AutoPilot off and the FO wouldn't rather sxxt into his pants instead of taking over control, nothing would have happend, but only an entry into the tech log, after landing. So many people dead. Woman, children.
It seems that in some part of the world the autopilot is regardes as the magic wichcraft box.: Turn it on, and the aircraft will fly itself out of every ****ty situation. Sorry, Pals! It ain't work that way.
