drkraft
If there is a system failure the autothrust system goes into the "Thrust Lock Mode" and freezes the engine power at whatever thrust was being developed at the time of the failure. Thrust lock indications are a MASTER CAUT light, an amber flashing ENG THRUST LOCKED and AUTOFLT A/THR OFF,THR LEVERS.......MOVE ECAM messages, a single chime, and a STATUS page message. The chime is repeated every 5 seconds until pilot corrective action is taken.
You raise another good point. Having read up some more on TOGA thrust lock incidents I can see that this issue alone has led to pilot overload and overspeed in the A330.
A330 experienced an uncancelable toga lock thrust condition following a predictive windshear go around
Are we reaching the point of over automation?