Ref GL and (Asiana @ SFO, Turkish at AMS, Thomson at BOH, 2009)
True... any airplane can be improved, even the T7 ...and any FCOM or FCTM or pilot qualification program can better cover more of those 1x10E-4 or less probable situations that we often see "once a week", ...it's just that some airplanes can benefit much more from improvement due to chronic weaknesses than others.
It would take many more than three pages here, and citing a mere three examples, to comprehensively address this "non-Moving throttle" and AP/AT disconnect subject. An entire FAA report was dedicated to subjects like this (back in 1996), and it still stands. In fact, hardly anything has changed on this non-moving throttle issue since those very first discussions with advocates like Gordon Corps, PB, and B Zed, ...on the troubling HF aspects of this subject, that began at least in the early 80s. I still vividly remember those meetings, and the predictions of the inevitability of this entire discussion.
Jun 18, 1996 - Federal Aviation Administration. "The Interfaces Between Flightcrews and Modern Flight Deck Systems".
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