http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...23060735779946
Very interesting video (and yes, I watched the entire thing). A key point is made at about 9:30 in which it says that if flying on autopilot, it is likely that flight crews will miss warning cues indicating potential tailplane (horizontal stab) stalls. My old company had a rigid policy that there was NO AUTOPILOT TO BE USED DURING FLIGHT IN ANY ICING CONDITIONS - period. It was very clear. Of course on cargo planes, you're lucky if the autopilots even work at all (usually they don't), so most times you were hand-flying anyway. But there was definitely a rigid policy on this - for this reason.
Blundering along in the clag with the ship on autopilot seems grossly negligent to me.