In the TAROM incident, if the operating pilot had kept his hands on the thrust levers (even lightly) he would have had to notice that one lever was retarding as the automatics tried to maintain total power during power reduction. That he also failed to monitor the attitude change doesn't alter the fact that the sensory input from the thrust levers would have alerted him to the need for intervention. He didn't and a lot of lives were lost .... UNNECESSARILY.