Originally Posted by A Squared
You can't imagine that there is any meaningful difference between hitting
rising terrain terrain on final on a non-precision approach when visibility is
limited by it being night and possibly by other meteorological conditions, and stalling into the (flat sea-level) ground, in broad daylight, on a beautiful clear day when there's not a cloud for 100 miles and nothing but a light breeze?
In your mind these accidents are essentially equivalent?
Maybe not equivalent (and entirely different operational scenarios and operating philosophies), but commonalities might include be
failure to adequately monitor altitude (at relevant distances from airfield/landing RWY)
and/or descent rate, which if done would appropriately should have then triggered other appropriate action?
That in itself seems to be enough of a potential root cause in terms of training, following FCTMs and SOPs, etc these days of increasing reliance on automation and reduced emphasis (generally speaking, don't know about UPS) on having/maintaining fundamental skills & airmanship.
Time will tell, and hopefully the investigation results will illuminate us all.