Having said all this. Can anyone clear me on the ATC's role in 100 seconds of crew paralysis. Shiphol ATC having a radar and ILS should have closely monitored the 737's approach on their screens, starting at around 2500 feet. They would know its altitude, speed and distance from the airport at any given time. Why on earth haven't they warned the crew? Why anybody doesn't talk about this? Or am I too wrong in assuming they should have.
ATCs prime role is to control rather than "fly the a/c". Even if Schipol had been equipped with Precision Approach Radar they probably wouldn't have noticed anything too untoward since, from the data we have available here, the a/c was on centreline and glideslope at least until stick shake. I guess the only slight clue might have been the lower groundspeed after 2,000 ft but by the time ATC had noticed it would have been (almost) all over.