As a captain on the NG this seems a pretty impressive demonstration of the need to be stabilised at 1000' feet in IMC.
Being on glide and on speed does not count if the engines are not spooled up, which by accounts so far, they do not seem to have been.
If you are not stable it should be a mandatory go-around.
The exact causes of this mishap will be provided by the investigators. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I will be adding it to my list of '737 how not to do it', alongside Adam Air, TNT East Midlands etc.
Last edited by lederhosen; 3rd Mar 2009 at 06:23.