Originally Posted by marciovp
I found it strange that nobody asked the Airbus guy about the improvements in the warning system after the Taipei accident and why that was not made mandatory.
This accident lets it appear in another light, since it was a catastrophe, but the previous accidents with "forgotten" thrust levers were less serious.
One (of two) wasn't even a hull loss, and in the other one, no-one on board died. Three people on the ground died, which is a tragedy, and three too many dead people, but still maybe the problem wasn't considered serious enough to mandate an airworthiness directive, specially since it involved violation of SOPs. This may change now.