Originally Posted by bsieker
- How many incidents have there been in which this particular thust-lever handling mistake was a causal factor?
Originally Posted by RWA
Besides Congonhas, three incidents, all involving runway excursions:-
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Phoenix - swerved off 11,500-foot runway to right. I don't know how far along it the aeroplane got, sorry.
Phoenix was different. Both thrust levers were first retarded to idle, only later was one "knocked up" again ...
You still haven't answered my other two questions, to see that short runways cause far more accidents than this kind of thrust lever mishandling. Which leads your criterion for prioritising aircraft-related causes ad absurdum.
If you say "But the aircraft is easier to fix", then this might be a criterion, but it is what I call political. Not looking at what will potentially prevent the most future accidents, but what will be easier to do, and cheaper. And in this case, not involve anything about the country in which the accident happened, but only foreign manufacturers.
Bernd