Babotica, every airline I have flown with I would agree that the FO's are probably as qualified as the captain. Not in this case. They lost airspeed and the autopilot and immediately pulled the SS into a full stall. They gained 3,000 ft and held full back SS until impact minutes later. That is a fully competent crew? Come on. Without the autopilot they were not competent to fly the airplane as demonstrated clearly in this crash. This was a routine flight until they lost airspeed and autopilot. Then they needed someone who could hand fly by pitch and power until they got the airspeed and autopilot back. Nobody in the cockpit at that time could do that. Sad, isn't it?