[sillysaurusx]

If you were correct, the only situation it would happen in is when the pilot flying asks for X to happen, and the pilot monitoring instead does Y. Pilots don’t just randomly reach over and screw with the controls. Everything is called out, and as far as I know there were no callouts here (e.g. “gear up”).

This is a bit like someone parking their car, pulling the handbrake, turning off the car and putting their keys in their pocket, then arguing that it’s a practiced maneuver because it happens at the end of every car ride.

[grepfru_it]

Look at a 787 cockpit. There are no other switches like that anywhere in the vicinity of those cutoff switches.

This is like pulling the handbrake on the highway when you’re trying to use your high beams

[account42]

> Pilots don’t just randomly reach over and screw with the controls.

Plenty of crashes have resulted from Pilots not acting 100% by the book.

> and as far as I know there were no callouts here (e.g. “gear up”)

Unfortunately we don't have a full CVR transcript.