Ok Then
I wanted to give every benefit of the doubt, but now:
1. Poor Pilot Training...
2. Poor Pilot Evaluation
3. Low Time pilots hired
4. Gadget on airplane ''increase speed'' instead of good old piloting and adding a few knots for the kids in icing conditions.
5. Fatigue...likely do to impossible commuting caused by low pay and no policy to prevent commuting on the day of the trip.
6. A pair of weak pilots.
7. Flight attendants probably didn't bring coffee to fatigued pilots. Part of the new after 911 locking the cockpit door with a bar.
8. an airline that had little experience with the type of aircraft.
9. typical management doing minimum required by FAA...not excelling in anything except cheapness.
10. Loss of situational awareness and monitoring of speed.
11. Failure to maintain flying speed (that's the big one folks).
and I will add that somehow, airspeed, probably the most important gauge in the cockpit is no longer a seperate instrument and part of an overall attitude /naviagtion display.