The UPS flight 1354 that crashed on short approach into Birmingham on the 14th, is starting to sound more and more like the Asiana crash at San Francisco. Things seemed like they were generally going OK for aircraft N155UP, considering that there was no electronic glideslope guidance available, right up until they descended below the desired glide slope, hit power lines and then the ground. There's some network buzz about an unstabilized approach. These pilots had darkness, and an overcast layer, to deal with, which shouldn't have been a big deal. Why was the autopilot still engaged, on short final on a non-precision approach? Puzzling.
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