This was not an automation accident, nor was it a technical/mechanical/design accident.
An aircraft with a fault so minor it isn't in the simulator training syllabus was permitted to stall on final approach by a professional, high-time airline captain.
The rest are details.
Situational Awareness accidents are human factors accidents which may or may not have technical components and factors.
A pilot is a pilot is a pilot. Nobody here who flies professionally can reasonably blame a Radio Altimeter fault for stalling an airliner on short final causing a fatal accident.
Last edited by PJ2; 5th March 2009 at 06:34.