SASless:
Why would the Engine Levers be in any position other than forward in the normal setting?
Who....What....moved them aft? Human, failure of some kind, or impact?
I haven't seen any official word as to the position of the engine levers. (Has anyone?) But apparently, by admitting that they are focusing on the windshield and centerpost, the NTSB is looking down that avenue.
I'll say one thing. If they've examined the various data recorders as they say, then they are not telling us the full story, but only what they want us to know. Their report leaves out many important details and only gives us crumbs. The FDR certainly could have given us the position of the ECL's, and the collective. And the CVR certainly contained
some messages from the pilots (or did they sit there for 10 seconds-plus and say and do nothing?).
Is the NTSB now hinting that the cause of this crash was external and not internal? If their intention was to "throw something out there" to assuage the nagging fears of S-76 community, they did more harm than good. There are more questions now than before. We must believe that this is merely a very carefully crafted "press release" and not meant as anything more.