Originally Posted by
Dani
That's what I'm asking myself many times since it happened. Noone could tell me so far the tech details: What will happen if you touched down, pushed the TOGA switches (unsuccesful, because they're inactive), pushed the throttles and let them go: Are they staying where they are, are the going forward, are they moving backwards.
Simple question - and the most simple way to explain the accident.
Is there no 777 driver around who knows this question?
Thanks,
Dani
They stay where they are.....during a manual landing.
Autothrottle disconnect occurs automatically:
• if a fault in the active autothrottle mode is detected
• when either reverse thrust lever is raised to reverse idle
• if the thrust levers are overridden during a manual landing, after the
autothrottle has begun to retard the thrust levers to idle
• when both engines are shut down