(14:55) OBSERVATIONS FROM FLIGHT CREW (Not yet corroborated by CVR)
Approach asked them to maintain 180 knots until they were about 5 miles out.
In this entire thread, the above is the first reference I can find to '180 at 5' and is from Post #1353 (page 68 currently), an NTSB briefing summary by Knot Apilot.
It is, as is stated, evidently from the Flight Crew comments and is, at that point in time, also as stated,
"Not yet corroborated by CVR".
The FCrew comment, as quoted, doesn't reference 5 DME or even just (180 at) 5 miles, but is quoted as an apparently TLAR (?) 'about 5 miles out'.
Shortly after this post, the comment was latched on to by posters and run with as '180 at 5' or variously '180 at 5 DME'. edit: or above just now '
180 to 5'.
Not wanting to read every post between then and now, has this been confirmed by the CVR? Has the CVR info even been released?
(additional edit: the referenced poster does use the term 'paraphrased'.)