Originally Posted by I-FORD
More than necessary precious TC time have been spent on investigating a non-event just to satisfy the ever growing public hunger for sensationalistic news related to air transport.
You would not be offering such views if the outcome had been only slightly different as in the UPS CFIT accident at Birmingham and the Lion Air CFIT accident near Bali.
You can't argue both ways, as in, "only give it precious TC time if it was an accident". None of us has such predictive capabilities as to determine how close to an accident this and others like this was, and so must handle events like this one as serious in order to find out why it happened.
Even with the most sophisticated equipment which assists crew in building and maintaining a high degree of situational awareness, it remains a puzzle why this kind of event continues to occur. So I disagree with your somewhat polemical comments.