Originally Posted by ShyGuy

This sounds like another Vertical Speeding into the ground accident, very unfortunate and avoidable. It's not standard obviously but if VS has to be used then the MDA should have been set for the altitude so the airplane could capture it and stay there. I'm curious since the FP never sequenced I assume they had no donut/football VDEV either. What were they using to guide themselves down past the FAF? Sounds like 1.5VS was set all the way until the GPWS alert which explains their descent rate of 1500fpm through 1,000 AGL.


The last US airline crash of Colgan had a PIC with an extremely checkered history. This UPS case had trouble with the PIC as well. Once hired failed 3 recurrent home study consecutively April-Sept-April. After 10 yrs as a FO couldn't pass through 757 upgrade and went back to FO. Two yrs later tried the same thing and again couldn't finish and went back to FO. Failed day 3 of a AQP session as well in the 17th year of FO.