Anyone of all you guys working up there in the skies who have any idea about what the "blinded by a bright light @500 feet" could be about?
Only a so-called laser-attack, imho.
ONLY?????
The PF of an aeroplane that will soon crash and kill 2 passengers is temporarily blinded, does not report it to the other crew members if what has been said about the crew not communicating for the last 2 minutes of the flight is correct, and it is ONLY a so-called laser-attack???
It's as much a factor, if correct, as some people are making the lack of an ILS.
As I have said previously, the key to the enigma is on the CVR, both in what is heard or maybe more importantly, what is not heard.
I'm sure we would all like to think that we have 'Sully' in the driving seat when something goes tits up (like the airbus you are on turning into a glider over a major city with only a river to try to land on), but you don't have to be an 'aviation expert' to know that for every 'Sully' flying passengers around the sky there has to be an equal & opposite 'Anti-Sully' who can't cope at all when something sufficiently out of their comfort zone occurs.
ILS availability aside, is the modern concensus that a visual approach and landing is, on a "blue sky" day, little wind, pretty much perfect day, outside the comfort zone of today's long haul aircrew? If it is, it is a sad indictment of the state of this industry.