Post by Deleted on May 10, 2009 9:58:08 GMT 1
Although the accident is still under investigation, recommendations have been forwarded to Boeing. These have been followed up by notification to all operators to not to engage auto-throttle on landing. The pilots of the doomed Turkish Airlines 738 who's auto-throttle was at idle, had manually selected to maintain a speed of 144 knots but the auto-throttle over ruled them and returned it to idle. However, this was not the sole cause of the crash and the report makes interesting reading.
www.onderzoeksraad.nl/docs/rapporten/Prelimenary_EN_def.pdf
www.onderzoeksraad.nl/docs/rapporten/Prelimenary_EN_def.pdf