Originally Posted by
Airbubba
I don’t buy this story which sounds like a very bad student pilot screwup. These guys were no rookies. Both CA and FO had total time well in the thousands, and while the FO appeared to be relatively new on type with 520 hours, the CA had around 1250 hours.
A technically well functioning 767 is not known as a problematic or difficult to handle aircraft.
I have been training rookie student pilots to deal with unexpected power surges and losses in light pistons, but none of them would have augured in while trying to recover from a sudden pitch-up due to unexpectedly firewalling the throttle,