I've deleted my original post as it was in response to one by B-HKD which has also been deleted.
Anyway, please please let the good guys and gals up in Washington do what they are trained for: painstakingly recreate the the events that gave rise to this tragic accident and maybe we can all learn from it.
As there is a debate about how easy it is to fly a visual approach I'll add my two penn'orth. Yes of course all commercial pilots should/must be able to perform these but they are not as easy as some of you think when you may be tired and out of practise. As a FO I could easily be landing after a month with no sectors. Also, big aircraft don't lend themselves to visual approaches if you are not in practise flying them especially somewhere like SFO where you may have been kept high and fly fully dragged up at idle thrust for an extended period.
Last edited by BBK; 7th Jul 2013 at 20:03.