Hello again,
What I had meant in my last posting from a week ago was that, the pilots, after the first warning went off for the failed captain's side altimeter, BEFORE even getting to the stage of engine thrust going to idle, should not have taken a chance and just disengaged autothrottle. If I understand what happened correctly, the pilots first had a warning (visual and/or auditory) that the captain's side altimeter had failed, yet they chose to silence and ignore this warning and shut it off. Perhaps at this point, they should have disengaged the ATHR as I had mentioned...
John