A Failure the Pilots Were Never Trained For / TAM Flight 402 Crashes into São Paulo
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What Is the Cause of the Loss of Control?
The plane has a safety, you know, move the throttle back to idol. So when the plane pulled it back to idl, their hand was on both throttle levers. And then they n it inadvertently, because you're used to pushing like so you don't have symmetrical thrust. The amount of force required to break the cable that was broken out of quick connect was like a little over 600 pounds of force.
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