Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
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Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board already have named several possible factors in the crash that left three dead and 181 injured. Those include problems with the Boeing 777's automatic throttle" ...
I can not believe they're going try and fault the 777. There are no problems with the 777's autothrottles -- only the piots who can't fly without them.
Exactly. They knew they were below REF and slowing, and no one fixed it. That's a failure of basic airmanship, not the airplane.
Would anyone on this board just ride the airplane into the dirt wondering why the auto throttles aren't saving you?