But the Captain told him no and brushed his hands off the thrust levers.

Normally, there is one thrust lever for each engine.

This was confirmed by the commander who tried to move the thrust levers without any response from the engines.

Thrust vector is adjusted by a control next to the thrust lever.

Thrust lever had been maintained in the "maximum reverse" position for about 8 seconds and was switched off after that.

The crew was unaware the thrust lever had been inadvertently advanced until late in the accident cycle.

The first officer put the nose of the aircraft up for 4 seconds and the thrust levers were set to go-around power.

With great determination he shoved up the thrust lever of the engines as far as it would go.

When the aircraft passed the exit threshold thrust levers were in the "small-reverse" position.

Two thrust levers controlled power of the two lifting gas turbines.

An air conditioning system and oxygen system are available as well as a second thrust lever.

The thrust levers are normally found in the aircraft's center console, or on the dashboard of smaller aircraft.

Obviously not aware of the malfunction, both crew members then vainly forced the thrust levers forward again.

Karr used a fingernail to pry up the stub of a thrust lever.

Thrust lever, close, he intoned to himself.

A second thrust lever is available.

Thus, when the pilot pulled the left engine thrust lever to idle it disconnected the autothrust system.

This would disengage the aircraft's autothrottle system, with engine power then being governed directly by the thrust lever's position.

Instead, he pushed the thrust levers forward even more, his eyes glancing to the center panel to check the maximum thrust readings.

In multi-engine aircraft, each thrust lever displays the engine number of the engine it controls.

What is often termed a throttle (in an aviation context) is more correctly called a thrust lever.

One second later the number 2 thrust lever retarded again and remained at idle for two seconds, the airspeed fell to 126 knots.

At 08:26:48 the first officer announced that he had disengaged the autothrottles and then jammed the number 2 thrust lever fully forward again.

After thrust levers were moved to the "maximum reverse" position an increase of forward thrust (up to 90% Nvd) was recorded with both engines.