A little more detail on the status of the two flight recorders from another TASS article:
MOSCOW, March 20. /TASS/. A flight recorder from the FlyDubai passenger jet that crashed on March 19 in Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don killing 62 has been opened, with records found to be of good quality, Sergei Zaiko, the chief of the Interstate Aviation Committee, said on Sunday.
"The flight data recorder has been opened. The damaged cable has been mended, the memory module has been studies. The data have been copied. The quality of records is good. The flight recorder was on until the plane hit the ground," he told the FM radio station.
"So, we have the records of this flight. As for the voice recorder, it was also seriously damaged, its cable was destroyed, so, efforts are now being taken to restore it. The works will be resumed tomorrow morning," he said.
TASS: World - Flight recorder from crashed FlyDubai jet opened, records quality good - IAC
I flew the 737(200 through the BBJ) and the automation in the later models, I thought, was very good.
However, a few missed switch pushes, or settings could ruin your day.
Most folks seem to say that this CAT I coupled approach would likely be flown with a single autopilot which would disconnect on the go around.
If they had a lower altitude set in the window, e.g. the published miss of 2260 feet, as they climbed to FL80, would the autothrottles come alive and pull the power back to idle as they zoomed upward in manual flight past the window altitude? This is what happens in some of the so called EFIS Boeings.