Pilot fatigue, accidental switch press blamed for plane going off runway

2 pointsposted 4 days ago
by amichail

1 Comments

duxup

4 days ago

>Shortly before landing, the captain meant to disengage the autothrottle, but accidently pressed the takeoff/go-around (TO/GA) switch, causing the autothrottle to try to increase engine thrust.

>The report goes on to say warnings about the change went unnoticed in the cockpit as the flight crew were focused outside the flight deck.

Well those are certainly very different switches to hit.