They are trying to blame the pilots. It was a maintenance problem. It was a known problem on a critical system and maintenance just kept signing it as ok to fly. Personally, I would not have flown with it, but the consequences in Air India of not flying, could have been significant. The part failure caused the engines to roll back to ground idle. That is the reason for the pilot comments. I also think that it was a design failure of the part. Default should be the current throttle setting, not ground idle.
They are trying to blame the pilots. It was a maintenance problem. It was a known problem on a critical system and maintenance just kept signing it as ok to fly. Personally, I would not have flown with it, but the consequences in Air India of not flying, could have been significant. The part failure caused the engines to roll back to ground idle. That is the reason for the pilot comments. I also think that it was a design failure of the part. Default should be the current throttle setting, not ground idle.