Originally Posted by
filejw
The fact that a switch is out of direct vision should mean nothing to a well trained crew. Critical items like this is not going to be operated without confirmation from both crewmembers, not that mistakes can't be made. Although I didn't know him except as a familiar face the copilot worked at the same airline as I did and confirmation of critical switch movement is ingrained from day one.Failure to do so could get you sent home for the day.
Seems like it would be fairly easy to bump the next lever in addition to the one you were trying to shut down, especially if you had large hands - or arthritis, for that matter. Not saying that's what happened, but could be a possibility?