again, pilots are human and make mistakes. That part is normal and unavoidable.
It is due to numerous accidents over the years that many onboard systems are just that, onboard.
Accepting you are going to make a genuine error one day is half the battle. Thats why we have procedures, thats why we need to stick to them.
You can continuously question the skills of this crew or any other crew but they placed their faith in the technology bringing them safely to a point in time. It was misplaced faith as the aircraft was not serviceable and there was no indication in the log book despite numerous failings on previous days and during take off.
The accident reports I listed were all avoidable if one single common action had been followed, stick to procedures.
Many of you here posting about the qualities of the crew would have done exactly the same in their shoes and you do so everyday. You place your trust in the equipment working properly. Therefore snag it, when it doesn't do what it should.
If you did that we would have less accidents to discuss.
Again this is not taking anything away from other cockpit issues out there. But don't dump on a crew when you do exactly the same as them, you just got lucky.