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.
As BOAC put it, it all depends of your speed, and pretty standard operation to spool up the engines, either manually or by autothrottle, only in the last 1000 feet RA.