Originally Posted by aeroengineer

Give a little credit to the Airbus for the assist from existing automation. Alpha protection mode engaged in the last 100 feet and certainly helped the touchdown.

I also wonder what would have happened had a system similar to DARPA's ALIAS been in the right seat of COLGAN 3407 instead of a ill, sleep deprived FO. Not completely removing the human in this scenario but keeping the human from making human mistakes.