Crew failed to monitor speed loss before 757's aggressive manoeuvres

American 757 title-c-Venkat Mangudi Creative Commons

US investigators have found that aggressive control inputs to increase poorly-monitored airspeed resulted in injuries to three flight attendants on an American Airlines Boeing 757-200 descending to New York JFK.

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