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Old 16th Jan 2011, 21:24
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“We’ll make an approach. In case of failure we’ll go around in autoflight mode”
Yes the report says that they planned to do that, but then it says that they didn't even do that:

Page 104

These two causes (lack of new clear plan of action and psychological clash) explain the passive behavior of the PIC on final (lack of reaction to the high vertical speed, to radio altimeter information called out by the navigator, to TAWS "PULL UP, PULL UP" warning, to the co-pilot's callout "Go around", and to the Controller's instruction to terminate descent "Horizon, 101!") and his late and inadequate recovery actions.
Combined with the clear statement that the GoAround button was not used, I think one can say they believe nobody tried to push the goaround button.
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