Originally Posted by
SASless
Gulli......if all you see is a low/zero oil pressure indication....even gauge and caution light.....how long do you spend scanning the gauges
Gauge + caution light = immediate action. No need for any further navel or gauge gazing. 50 seconds is long enough for an engine without oil to blow up, hence why you need to immediately slow down and promptly get the problem engine back to idle as the first step of shutting it down.
My hunch that engine had no oil flowing through it, and it was still producing power at the moment it went bang. I'm guessing what caught fire was the oil that should have been flowing through the engine, but wasn't.