I'm sorry to contradict you but what they did was THICK, plain and simple. If your car is accelerating towards something out of control you are expected to have the presence of mind to take your foot off the accelerator before jamming on the brakes, this is really no different.
If the person(s) in the cockpit didn't appreciate the relationship between the thrust lever position ( that THEY had set ) and the forward motion taking place then they had no bloody business to be sitting there in the first place.
Is that not the crux of the matter ? ?
