[Brooklyn Attitude]

“believed the auto-throttle should have come out of the idle position to prevent the airplane going below the minimum speed” for landing, the NTSB said in a summary of an interview with him.”

I’m not a pilot but that sounds like a design error to me. Shouldnt there be a system that doesnt allow the plane to fly too slow for landing? If so why would you make it so that it could be accidentally turned off?

[American Constitutionalist]

There is a speed indicator that they should have been keeping a eye on and a audible alarm that warms them that their airspeed is to low.
The airspeed indicator is right in front of their faces and they have no excuse for not watching it.
I don't know in this airplane if they have a redundancy for the low airspeed in the stick but when the plane loses lift and starts to stall the yoke or stick rattles to warn them.
So there is a speed indicator, a audible warning, and the stick shakes to tell them there is something wrong.

My best bet is ? the pilot was not experienced to fly a large plane like this or he was not ready to fly a plane like this.