Derfred
He was an experienced 747 captain. Where do you think he got used to non moving throttles? What they both got used to was total reliance on auto throttle and not monitoring speed.On approach you monitor speed and not throttles. On heavy jet with that inertia you don't drop 30KTS on approach unless you are doing stall recovery and what about standard call outs? -5 KTS should have elicited SPEED call, -10KTS should have been a scream. When you check someone you have to be on your toes. This accident is a mirror reflection of an accident in 1990 in Bangalore only the aircraft was Airbus 320.