Originally Posted by Bobdxb
However hand flying will not improve your knowledge of SOP's clearly not followed by 521 crew
Nonsense. If you are proficient at hand-flying, you've got much more brain space to handle abnormal/weird/unfamiliar situations, and therefore will be better able to pull "unfamiliar/not-often-used" procedures out of your brain and implement them safely.
Originally Posted by Bobdxb
... and most probably they did all above, probably real trap was:
1. PF hand flying increasing workload for all
So how do you propose the aeroplane lands: autoland on each occasion? This accident probably started at 200ft; surely you are not suggesting the AP should still have been in then?