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A malfunctioning automatic throttle may have caused the pilots of a Sriwijaya Air jet to lose control, resulting in the Boeing 737-500's crash into the Java Sea last month, Indonesian investigators said Wednesday. National Transportation Safety Committee investigators said they are still struggling to understand why the jet nosedived into the water minutes after taking off from Jakarta on Jan. 9, killing all 62 people on board. The investigators issued a preliminary report that provided new details of the pilots’ struggle to fly the plane from almost as soon as it became airborne...

>> absolutely. remember, this guy will have his left hand on the throttle lever and his right hand over on the brake. and there is a thing called startle response. if off sudden unexpected loud noise or anything like that, this is instinctual. this is not something you think about you automatically jerk, flinch, if you will, perhaps duck. the other potential player here is the phone the head set hand set that he uses is over on the far left side. so he doesn't have a third hand, so he's going to try to make a cull to find out about those projectiles. he's got to release one of those lovers. so...