. Contributing to the incident is the fact that the maneuver was performed without automatic systems to control the airplane’s attitude/flight path or thrust.
In other words, the pilots were not expected to be able to control the airplane’s attitude/flight path or thrust?
Pretty sad if this is the future of commercial flying: No training or talent needed, just push the Auto button and go flying
Glad I got to experience DC-3s, DC-8s and 747 Classics, we did the airplane attitude/flight path and thrust manually and took pride in it.