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Old 16th Mar 2019, 03:03
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Originally Posted by Eric Janson
What about inadvertent selection of TOGA mode? - hand resting on the thrust levers than turbulence causes one of the two TOGA switches to be pushed.

Would make more sense than the thrust levers being manually pushed forward.
No,
The 767 is an easy, docile Jet, no risk of inadvertent selection of TOGA mode, none whatsoever unless you are totally incompetent and I doubt these guys were. (Unless one of them was suicidal, then anything and everything is on the table)
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