Originally Posted by
mickjoebill
At the pull and twist of a handle, the worlds most tested computers can’t be trusted to “make safe” an aircraft for evacuation, once it’s come to a stop?
mjb
Any switch that has the capability to shut down both (or all) engines has a failure mode that will do exactly that when it shouldn't. As I wrote before, do you really thinks its a good idea to design in a failure mode that will cause the loss of all engines?
It would also violate a several FAR/CSs...
Heck, even with the action of
two, independent switches required to shut down both engines, there have been at least two cases when the pilots shut down both engines in-flight when they meant to do something else...