Raises another question, too. WHY did EASA, before the Congonhas crash, mandate 'both throttles to full reverse' at all? Doesn't make sense, really - if one R/T isn't working, surely all you'd need to do is not select it?
So that both go to idle and the one working goes to full reverse and the actions are just the same as a normal landing. To prevent exactly what happened . 116 pages, but am I right in thinking the crew screwed up and had one in full fwd and one in fulll reverse which meant they couldn't stop in the distance available.. You can cut it however you want but it had nothing to do with a dodgy runway, a dodgy reverser, a dodgy airbus or dodgy conditions but a lot to do with our colleagues making an unfortunate mistake.