Originally Posted by
Texasbound
Um, no. No matter what is engaged or disengaged when you move the throttles forward on a Boing the Engines respond. When you pull back, the plane responds. According to the Captain he did that. Yes, the investigation said otherwise, but since when do we believe investigations? Pilots are always right.
I don't have a link to back this up but I read somewhere that the engines took much longer to spool back up than expected. So they did respond. Technique...