Originally Posted by
kaokao
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Full throttle did not work. why?
Did the pilots really not know how to gain the thrust?
or
Did something happen which should never happen?
Full Throttle did not work because the pilots were relying on automation to do it for them. All the facts are not known at this time but a properly trained pilot monitors the airspeed and keeps their hand on the thrust levers at all times during the final phases of the approach. All that was needed was to simply physically push on the thrust levers and the engines would have responded.
All three pilots in that flight deck were negligent in their duties and allowed the airspeed to decay to a dangerous level without the appropriate response. The reason for this was an over reliance on automation that can effect pilots from every part of the world.
In view of the fact that the rest of the world has for many years held poor opinions of the flying abilities of Korean aircrew, I would have thought they would have worked hard to enforce practices to prove the world wrong.
In this case it looks like they didn't try hard enough.