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.
I don't buy this hypothesis reported by the Wall Street Journal writer. I really doubt that they were hand flying while driving around in some chop. And if TOGA was selected accidentally for some reason, they would have simply pulled the throttles back. It wouldn't have caused them to have go ape....