Originally Posted by
ekwhistleblower
All the 777 guys tell me a key safety feature of the 777 is that you get 'tactile' feedback of the thrust position. It seems in 3 recent crashes: Asiana, the 737 at AMS and this one, despite having those moving levers the crew managed to get the wrong thrust on the aircraft.
The Asiana crew didn't "manage " to get the wrong thrust setting, they didn't do anything. they sat there like bumps on a log and watched the airspeed decay and the airplane fall out of the sky, until it was too late to do anything. If you;re not going to monitor your airspeed, nor monitor whether you're on the PAPI, it's really a moot point *what* your power levers do.