Quoting CON fiture:-
'at FL350 with no A/THR the output is absolutely the same whatever the thrust levers position from CLB to MCT to TOGA.'
Sincerely hope that I've misunderstood, CON fiture?
You appear to be saying that, due to a total lack of logic in the Airbus auto-throttle controls, the unfortunate AF447 pilots spent most of their last three minutes on this Earth pissing about with throttle settings like CLB, MCT, TOGA, and whatever - but that ALL of those settings simply resulted in no change at ALL in the actual power generated by the engines - which remained at TO/GA?
As a law graduate, on the face of it, I'd say that if that's even halfway true, it provides adequate evidence for the designers of any such systems (AND their parent companies) to face manslaughter charges, at the very least?
Almost can't believe that any designers could generate systems which were THAT stupid?