KoruPilot

Excerpt from BBC story:
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When the automatic throttle demanded more power, the engines initially responded. Then first the right engine, followed eight seconds later by the left, powered down - to a level below the thrust needed.

Warnings would have flashed up on engine monitoring screens in the centre of the control panel, showing the power was below that required.

A lower screen would have shown more detailed information about the flow of fuel around the aircraft. The primary displays would show the likely height the plane would descend to in the next minute.

Faced with the knowledge that a disaster was in the making, the crew had around 40 seconds to save their aircraft. It's understood the captain Peter Burkill quickly reduced the amount of wing flaps deployed.

This was as important as the skilful manipulation of the control column by John Coward, in saving the aircraft. It cuts drag, speeds the plane up a little, and when a pilot has speed, he can maintain altitude.
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What the @%#$? over. Where do they get this stuff? I don't know about BA, but we, as is Boeing practice, have the lower EICAS blanked for take off and landing. If there is a problem it will come up.

At any rate, would you raise the flaps with low airspeed on short final? I think if the plane was behind the curve then lowering the flaps would reduce drag yes, but also reduce lift; The thing would sink quicker at a lower speed. I'd guess blow-back but the pilots, and the AIB are saying that they saw the lack of power and moved the thrust levers manually, so they must have been at a reasonable speed or the power levers would not have advanced.

Has anyone else seen anything regarding maneuvering close to the ground on final? I have just heard the eye-witness accounts.