After watching this video I am a bit disturned with some of the things the crew did. I understand we all will defend out fellow crewmembers to the death because that's what we do and it's a part of our culture. Maybe their actions can be blamed on the training department or something instead of just piloting skills.

I've never flown the Q but from what watching the CVR/FDR overlapped some things really struck me hard. Forget the sterile cockpit for this even though that will be mentioned a million times during this investigation. I'm even looking past the autopilot flying the airplane until the dooming pitch-up. As pilots, it's out job the monitor the autopilots performance and airplanes trends and current state of flight while it's engaged. I don't see how them leaving the airplane on autopilot has anything to do with it. I'd rather the autopilot fly the plane in conditions like that so I can concentrate more on airspeed, trim, and planning ahead instead of keeping it in the bars tight. As we all know it really decreases the workload. Towards the end the snake is really coming up fast and the pitch is increasing while the speed slows. At the point the snake starting moving up, we can all pretty much agree that's the point where most would start taking action and applying more power and abandoning the approach possibly. After the plane pitched up the proper inputs to recover didn't really line up with the actual inputs. Again, I'm not here to place blame or doubt the crews skill. What hit me especially hard was the monitoring pilot retracting the flaps without the pilot flying's command. After the flaps were retracted at 80-100 knots it was all over at that point, or maybe even before.

I'm interested in seeing the final probable cause of this accident and hope more blame is placed at a root problem rather than just blaming the pilots.