Good points. But they didn’t crash onto level ground. Do you happen to know the altitude of the cliff they ended on, and the cloud ceiling?
I just refuse to believe that the autopilot flew the plane from 38000 feet into mountains at 2000 feet while the pilots were sitting there, alert, doing their job, and somehow they just didn’t notice it until it was to late to do anything about it. You can argue that all day, but I won’t believe it.