Without knowing the details of this accident, using a hypothetical similar scenario, it is best to look at the actions independently.
FO screws up the approach. Well, we pretty much all have at some point in our career if we look back far enough. Is that enough reason to be fired these days? Likely not. The FO can be written up by the captain and perhaps more training required or as happened in our cases long ago, we learned our lesson. Maybe he gets a letter on file for not having suggested a go around from his portion of the unstable approach.
Captain takes over from a screwed up approach at 400 feet. Well done. Now what do you do. I suspect the SOP for the unstable approach is to go around. If you continue and trash the aircraft, expect to get fired. Or jail time in some countries unfortunately. Or a funeral potentially for some.
Somebody said, "The fact that she pushed the nose over after taking over indicates she thought he was going to land too long. Not saying he was, just that the evidence seems to point to her thinking that". That is definitely reason to be fired based on the outcome of our hypothetical scenario. If there is no accident, perhaps the data monitoring will result in a downgrade or retraining.
Last edited by JammedStab; 5th Oct 2013 at 01:13.