Whether it turns out to be design fault, maintenance problem, combination of the two or something completely different, once again it is demonstrated why it is good idea to check for reversers green before feeding them anything above idle.
Originally Posted by CONFiture
Sad to think that simply pulling on the flight controls in that late stage would have been the perfect escape.
So, the pilots realize that despite their pulling reverser levers fully back, engines are producing full forward thrust. They promptly and correctly diagnose the problem which they have never seen before and decide to take it airborne while holding the reverse levers where they are. They climb away to safe altitude and airspeed which would allow transition from full reverse selection forward to climb power , all the time being lucky reversers don't deploy while airborne.
Problem with this scenario is it is too much to expect even of Dan Dare or Pirx the pilot.
Originally Posted by PJ2
This was not a complex system
Yup. Given reactions on PPRuNe, they alternatively suck when they are simple then suck when they are complex, depending on nothing else but what was the contributing factor of the last accident in the collective memory.