Originally Posted by
log0008
Turbulence causing a pilots hand to push the engines to t/o power and then a massive pitch down control input sounds like the most strange and extraordinary cause of a crash I've read, has to more to it surely?
I agree. Like everybody else, I've been in some pretty heavy turbulence and I don't remember that it ever caused me to jam the throttles to the stops. And the acft supposedly was on the A/P, so it would had to have disconnected in order to get a pitch up from the increased thrust, in any case. Even if all that had happened, I don't see them pushing massively on the yokes to correct was only a few hundred foot climb. Sounds more like a Keystone Cops movie.