The Captain
I really feel for the PF and his CP. Where was the CRM in this instance?
There can be no question now that the decision he made was wrong, but we can also consider that he was working within the constraints of the local political pressures the air industry is in in Indonesia (say that without a stutter) .
He should have gone for TOGA. But somehow he believed that he could land fast and stop before the road ran out!
So, What made him think that way? Incorrect feedback from instruments? - NO. He knew his AS.
Pressure from his company to get down within a certain time? Probably.
or whatever.... Something clouded his judgement to the extent that next time he would not repeat the error of judgment. Who can say what that was now?
One of the sentencing judges remarked that the sentence would serve as a deterrent to a recurrence. Let us hope so.
Tragic loss anyway...
FN