Originally Posted by
slickcity
I have thousands of hours in both seats of the 757 and the 767. When the f/o is hand flying an approach and calls for flaps, the captain many times will reach behind the throttles and around to set the flaps. This avoids contacting the first officer’s hand while he/she is operating the throttles. But it also puts the captain’s wrist in close proximity to the go around switches. I can see this happening.
^^ x2. 10,000+ hrs on the 757/767. I can recall at least 3 incidents of inadvertently activating the G/A switches in 15,000+ hrs on Boeing's with G/A switches. 'Click, click' to deactivate the auto throttles is the rapid response.
It's typically a non event because the FO, with their hand on the throttles, feels an uncommanded forward movement and physically restrains the thrust levers while using the push buttons to disconnect the auto throttles.