[no-s]

Since the lack of power for the takeoff was directly related to their erroneous weight calculations and since takeoff thrust is computed on weight, altitude of the airport, runway length and other considerations they had plenty of excess thrust to call on. They didn’t.

So I hear AirBus is a fly-by-wire airplane. And every pilot input is filtered by the flight management computer. Wonder if the incorrect mass was applied to every action they took?

[saganite]

The FMC would filter all pilot inputs based on what it thought the weight of the plane was but I would think they could regain control of thrust by disconnecting the auto throttles.