Originally Posted by
stiffwing
One of my very experienced instructors once said to me "don't make S#&T Up, but if you do, it had better work". The Sioux city crash landing worked as best as it could when they "made up stuff". The LAME operating the engines seems very unusual, did he have Flight Engineer qualifications? I guess not as I've not seen it mentioned. There is a reason it takes a full year to go from an aircraft technician to a flight engineer in the RAAF, that's because it's not as simple as pushing and pulling the power leavers.
Having said that, it's only the preliminary report and it's very easy to sit back in the 1G arm chair and throw stones.