"::::::: My response wasn't intended to distract from IAS readings or scanning in general, it was just meant to show that even during the last NTSB briefings, the relationship between A/T state and FD mode was explicitly highlighted, which isn't to suggest that anything failed - but rather that ""human factors"" seem to have been an issue here, like you say - that still doesn't explain how 3 pilots managed not to monitor airspeed sufficiently, unless instrument readings were way off, which we have no reason to believe ATM, however this is something that was explicitly mentioned as a possibility by ALPA, and the NTSB still didn't evaluate 2/3 of the FDR parameters: <>http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-asiana-pilot-blinded-crash-20130711,0,4824429.story
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