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Speed was 137 knots. And the question was whether or not we had the lowest speed that the crew achieved. I will tell you that the speed was significantly below 137 knots and we are not talking about a few knots. We still have to corroborate some information. This was a preliminary read. The 137 knots came from the crew conversation about their approach speed. We need to take a closer look at the raw data on the Flight Data Recorder as well as corroborate that with radar and air traffic informati...

Their landing speed and they failed to engage the auto throttles but they believe they had done it and the power didnt come up, they were monitoring and having an expectation that the auto throttles would put power in to maintain speed. when it didnt happen they had to realize something is wrong. i now have to take manual control and do something. then, again, that is the problem where they didnt perceive any kind of problem until the problem manifested itself about seven seconds out. by the tim...