bobcat4:
But one thing strikes me as "weird". If A/T is on power idle, the pilot pushes the throttle levers to full power, and A/T then goes to power idle, then we would have a scenario where the pilot and the A/T disagree about the power setting. Pretty simple, isn't it?
Fully agree with bobcat4, normal "system" behavior would be to diengage the automatic setting when there is manual override applied. This seems not the case with the NG.
Could the plane have crashed because the captain just needed three arms? TL, stick and trim back the AP settings?
Perhaps he just did not trim back assuming that AT would disengage when TL are moved by hand? Still very hard case with the amount of hours he had. And too simple considering all the training...