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Those picking on the flying pilots skill should back off a bit. If when the auto pilot kicked off the aircraft was in a config change and triming for it, a high RATE of decent could begin. If close enough to the ground it does not take much of a deviation for this to be flagged on the DFDR reports. Other media reports and local comments state that this incident was discovered by DFDR monitering. If less than 1000' agl and greater than 1000' per minute that would be "high rate of decent" per most companies SOP's. The papers here in India are the most sensational I have seen anywhere in the world when it comes to aviation. If it is a slow enough day a wx deviation can and has made the front page of national newspapers and "breaking news" on television. Having said that the ACM should at the very least lose check airman status and be returned to the FO seat for a while. As for the flying pilot, I will hold judgment for more information. The Times of India when covering anything aviation has been on more than one occasion been refered to as the TOI let of India.
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