It was one of those tragic cases where all the holes lined up. For sure we should look at it, and try to learn lessons from it, but to sit there and judge the actions of the flight crew is non-productive and downright disrespectful!
matt_hooks, I don't agree. Moggiee is correct; the crew should have got it right. I agree that 'we' wern't there, but the accident report goes into great detail about what actually happened.
I accept that, on the day, the holes all lined up, but I'm sure that if you asked the 2 guys concerned they would agree that, as a crew, their performance was somewhat below par. Had this scenario happened during a sim ride I would hope the debrief would have been, at the very least, fairly uncomfortable.
As for judging the actions of flight crew being non-productive, again I disagree. Moggiee doesn't slag them off - and nor do I intend to, but clearly we both feel they could/should have done better, despite the circumstances they found themselves in.