Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Workload; Situational Awareness; Distraction; Communication Breakdown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Landing Without Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Flight Crew Returned To Clearance; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Human Factors; Procedure
First Officer (FO) was Pilot Flying (PF) and cleared for a visual approach to Runway XYR; from base leg at 3;000 feet. FO chose to use LNAV and VNAV to backup approach. FO stayed too high because of improper programing; too distracted to take over visual; and fly aircraft. Repeated call outs to FO by Captain to descend but FO very unable to understand and think. Captain had to turn off LNAV & VNAV and instruct FO to follow ILS and Flight Director. In the confusion the Tower call for clearance to land was missed.This FO is very distracted by [personal difficulties and] is not 100% mentally dedicated to doing his duties.
On base to final; we received a visual clearance from Approach Control for Runway XYR. Upon landing I realized we were still with Approach Control. When we switched to Tower frequency; the Controller cleared us to taxi without further incident.
A B737 First Officer became highly distracted after mis-programming the FMS for a visual approach. The Captain commented First Officer's personal matters made him unable to perform his flying duties well.