Nojwod wrote," As expected reading the last few pages, the usual crowd of perfect pilots comes on to disparage those pilots who were imperfect, the only difference between the perfect pilots and the rest are that the perfect pilots strut around here like a bunch of cockerels, the imperfect pilots are out there facing the real world scenarios...
Anyway that aside, to me what was said and the actions of the PF, with no real dissent from either of the other two imperfect pilots who were there, indicate that something either in the instrumentation or the plane's response to inputs was diametrically opposed to what the crew expected to see or experience. Unless you perfect pilots believe that all three highly trained pilots on the flight deck on that dark night were so grossly incompetent that they could not follow basic airmanship as a matter of course, then there must be some factor(s) that the data recorders have not been able to provide and which may never be known.
As for the dogmatic statements by some perfect pilots above that the crew shouldn't have flown into the storm or flew a perfectly serviceable aircraft into the sea, your comments are beneath contempt, not only for their insensitivity but also for their gross simplification of a situation that you in reality know absolutely nothing about. "
I beg to differ in approach:
a. You should expand your horizons by going through the NTSB database of fatal accidents, to find out what mistakes pilots make.
b. That should lead you and everyone taking control of an aircraft to the understanding that if you are not a perfect pilot, quickly get away and never come back. I have seen enough in 36 years of flying, you can trust what I say.