What I find most curious is that towards the end of the summary, when they struck the trees, the BFU noted "The autopilot was engaged at this point".
How comes there was no sign to do an AP disconnect and execute a GA?!?
Basic airmanship should tell any pilot that if you have the AP on in a descent and the EGPWS shouts at you, disconnect the damn thing and execute a GA.
It seems that they just self-constructed an IFR approach where there was none, why otherwise would they have the AP engaged so close to the field and not hand-fly it.
That's just a sad fact apparently, but again the fact that they had the AP engaged right until impact puzzles me the most.
Last edited by INNflight; 15th May 2012 at 12:37.