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
The captain and to a lesser extent his copilot were directly responsible for causing a ghastly death to some of their crew and many passengers. Let's not gild the lily, here. The captain had ample opportunity even after the first bounce to go around. The first officer had ample opportunity to be more aggressive in not only insisting on a go around but taking direct action. From all acounts it was simple open and shut case of highly dangerous and reckless disregard of the norms of good airmanship.
Forget CRM in this case. The captain clearly didn't believe in it. It is a good bet that the captain had a past record of unstable approaches but somehow kept his job. The verdict of the judges was the right one. Turning up each day in the court dressed in his captain's uniform was ridiculous and was an obvious attempt to influence the court that a captain should be un-touchable. That alone should have been worth another two years in the slammer. He was lucky the judges were so lenient.