Originally Posted by
Easy Street
Reacting to a complete loss of thrust by attempting recovery to base at Kandahar, a couple of hundred miles away, when they were operating well inside gliding range of Kabul and Bagram suggests such a degree of unthinking panic by the crew that it’s easy to picture how the wrong engine got shut down.
Not wishing to compromise OPSEC or criticise the crew but could mission endurance and crew fatigue be a significant factor in misidentification of engine failure?