Fugitive
While it is easy to say,pilot error,what other factors combined to cause two experienced pilots to lose it?of course it was pilot error,but what caused these experienced pilots to get to the point where they lost the plot?
It is time that AIC look at management,they seem to be left out of the investigations.
Reading the report,the Captain had been sick,the F/O had been called off reserve,the aircraft was not fully serviceable,flight controls not fully operational and no auto pilot;it had apparently been U/S for a number of days,
Don't call it pilot error,call it management error.
It looks like the old CRM Swiss cheese problem again.
Take care of the pilots,they did their best.: