"The [pilot] recalled that, during the incident flight, he had been thinking about those stresses and believed that this might have contributed to the event by distracting him prior to descent."
The report says the pilot had also been struggling to get enough sleep in the days prior to the incident.
"The [pilot] reported staying at temporary accommodation and sleeping on average for only four hours a night.
"The [pilot] considered that fatigue was a factor during the approach into Alice Springs, in that it affected [their] clarity of judgement and concentration."
Sounds very like the fatigue situation in the US and particularly I note the similarities between how this pilot spent his time before the flight and how the pilots tragically killed in the Colgan Air accident did. Unfortunately for the American flight the outcome was so different. Guys we are not far away. Not far away at all.
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