pacplyer
(and I'd like to know what happens during an engine separation, never had one; do the cables just shear or do they move the throttles? What happened to the pilot that lost one over Michigan? Maybe someone can ask him?)
From testimony of a fellow crewman who was aboard the Evergreen incident (ANC), the thrust lever will violently slam back to it's stops during an engine separation. Pulled there through the attached cable motion of the falling engine.