Originally Posted by chuks
Given that if the systems had been working free of fault and as designed then there's no way you should see the engines pulled back to idle by the autothrottle system with the aircraft nowhere close to touchdown; that is rather obvious.
- not quite so, chuks - as I mooted way back, there was an element of a 'rushed approach' (assuming post 2483 is accurate) and a 'normal' system could well have demanded idle if the speed was high - only the FDR will tell us. I suspect the crew may well have been 'unsurprised' by the closed throttles while they were in the process of slowing to Vref