Originally Posted by Airhoss

Absolutely false.

They had all the power they needed all they had to do was manually push the throttles up to Flex or TOGA.

They thought that the auto thrust system was going to maintain selected speed for the fly by. They got so low that the auto thrust system went into landing mode.

If they had flown the pass with the auto thrust system turned off they would have had normal manual throttles.

If they would have shut off the auto thrust with the throttle switches or the auto thrust button the thrust would have immediately jumped up to commanded throttle position.


By time they figured out that the auto thrust system was no longer providing commanded speed it was to late.

If you watch the video the engines come up to full power just as the airplane starts to eat the trees.

Also if you watch the you tube video with the narrator that talks about the first fully automated airplane.. Everything he says is technically and factually incorrect.

The “computer” did not and cannot override manual throttle movements once moved out of the auto thrust engagement range.