For 'tough', read catastrophic. Sorry, "Catastrophic".
I don't think any logic tree would have had a branch leading to, 'won't reduce thrust.' I've tried again and again to put myself in that skipper's mindset and only come up with the fear of the nose pitching down with reduced power. I haven't searched for the graphs yet, but I don't think there was a break in that high power setting. Hard to plan for such an event.