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Old 10th Oct 2018, 04:16
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Originally Posted by KRviator
I wouldn't entirely classify the Amsterdam 737 accident as the crews fault. The primary cause was a faulty radar altimeter that provided an erroneous signal to the autothrottle that retarded the thrust levers. The crew manually advanced the thrust levers, but because he didn't disengage the autothrottle, the computer again retarded the thrust levers.

You could also include China Airlines 006 in that, after an engine rollback, they failed to monitor their airspeed, resulting an a departure from controlled flight. Again, an underlying issue occurred, mode confusion was not the primary reason.


Pretty incredible you’d blame the AMS
crash on anything other than pilot error


If you’re so clueless you don’t recognize
airspeed decreasing without an appropriate
response from The autothrottles, then take over and correct you are incompetent, a passenger not a pilot


Funny, we flew aircraft for decades without
AT, how did we survive?
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