Originally Posted by
lansen
Pressing either of the TOGA buttons instead of disengaging the autothrottle is certainly not a common mistake in the 737. You either have to be retarded, completely unqualified or maybe have a live seizure to mistake/accidently push the wrong one of those buttons
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Clearly either you've never flown both a 737 and the myriad of Turboprops that have go around switches where the disconnect buttons are on the 737 or you like insulting people.
I have pressed the wrong one on several occasions, but immediately realised and sorted it. (TOGA instead of disconnect). It happens, not that often but when it does it isn't a problem if the person doing it fixes it.
In this case, I and many others suspect the Captain maybe was not fully in the loop that it had been pressed.