TAM A320 crash at Congonhas, Brazil

[Rob21]

PBL,
You forgot to "quote" my whole phrase. What you said, and I did not agree, was that engine #2 had "significant forward thrust" during flare, therefore the situation was not "normal". My full statement was that during the flare, engine #2 had the "expected" forward thrust, and EPR "split" occurred after reverse on engine #1 was selected. And only then problems began, when ATHR was disengaged.

TyroPicard,
Thanks for clarifying my thoughts on this braking issue.
I believe that when the pilot went to the ground spoilers arm switch it was a desperate attempt to have G/S, and he knew he would not be able to stop. If he had had a manual G/S "deployment device", I'm sure he would have used it, instead of clycling the G/S arm switch.
I know, on A320 the "manual G/S deployment device" is TLs at idle. But at that point, TL was or "forgotten" or inop.
Too bad...