Does the fact that this accident involve British Airways (arguably the world's safest airline) have everyone automatically thinking that the crew were infalliable?
Simply a cocked up approach was the first thing a thought of when I saw the news for the first time...and at first I was suprised that no one mentioned pilot error (well I did actually but that was early on). It just seems unlikely that BA would let them read a statement out and that the captain would sound so confident in praising his crew if there was
any suggestion that they might have done something wrong.