Yes the guy did it to himself, mostly due to poorly executed differences training (incidentally the same issue occurred on N601FH 12 years earlier). But why would you design a unguarded control in a cockpit which if inadvertently operated can destroy your engine AND which requires a sequence of control inputs to correct?
The emergency sequence just couldn't happen on a T variant. But later (505 onwards) T variants ended up with the pointless throttle guard that was the "fix" for the 2006 incident. Which of course wasnt fitted to N312SA and would have prevented the second event - go figure.
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