Originally Posted by
Teddy Robinson
The Smartlynx A320 incident at Tallinn 28th Feb 2018 has been mentioned previously on this thread.
Whilst an underlying technical issue led to the main event (aircraft contacted the runway once the gear had been selected up), both engines subsequently failed shortly thereafter.
That's accurate if the
main event is considered to have been the EFCS pitch control failure. If with main event you mean the wheels in transit ground contact, then the report makes it quite clear that the EFCS failure led to the crew failing to control pitch proparly for 36 seconds as they didn't understand at all that pitch was in manual reversion through the THS control with the trim wheel. The report also speculates (altough doesn not test that hypothesis) that ground contact would still have been avoided without the unexplained selection of idle thrust for 4 seconds before the ground contact.
None of that probably has anything to do with the thread accident, but it's important to note that a “technical issue” was not even close to the only cause of the Tallinn accident you linked.