DozyW - what you been smoking man!!!!
"As far as I know the THY aircraft was being handled correctly aside from improper monitoring of what the autothrust was doing"
You have almost trivialized the very act of airspeed monitoring. That pesky act of "improper monitoring" was, well, quite fatal.
The fact the RA was out should have been but a minor inconvenience at best. As the speed approaches Vref most of us expect a power increase, a thrust lever movement, a spool up, the trend arrow to disappear.