Originally Posted by
Chuck Ellsworth
After reading the article I am left with a more simple reason for the accident.
It was the result of crew incompetence.
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Absolutely and by any objective measure, they exhibited a near criminal level of lack of professionalism.
The question in my mind, however is, how did they get to that stage ? The PIC had been flying for 30 years and had 15,000 + hrs and the FO over 9000 hrs, both up to then accident and incident free. These guys did not all of sudden wake up and decide "let's break every rule of good airmanship and common sense today"