Originally Posted by
dhuey
My guess (and it's only a guess) is that these were the circumstances in the AC cabin on its approach to SFO.
Your guess is certainly a valid one. However, it's hard to see how any seasoned pilot (or 2 pilots in this case) can let their guard down so much to have been this close to cause a catastrophic event.
I suspect (as a professional watcher of the Mayday TV show and honorary PhD armchair critic) that there was more than one cause of this near-miss.