i would agree with that an inoperative ils could hardly have contributed to the accident although the pilot was relatively inexperienced on the he has close to flying hours according to one of the reports i have read i just refuse to believe that a pilot with that level of flying experience cant land on a runway in clear broad daylight without automated assistance the crash in my opinion is similar to the crash of turkish airlines flight where although the aircraft was a b none of the pilots who were in the cockpit noticed the drop in airspeed until it was too late for recovery wonder if we should add the turkish airlines crash in the list of similar accidents