Originally Posted by
9 lives
June 2019 in Canada, the PNF pulled the condition levers to shutdown on a cargo Basler DC-3T by mistake, and you have to pull them past a gate to do it! Splashed the plane.
Actually one of his arm/hand/coat caught both condition levers while operating gear up through a weird move is my understanding. The gate you mention is a simple metal corner to pass by moving those levers sideway before down/Stop. Those corners can be worn out enough not to do their job properly.
I'm pretty sure both Basler's guys knew right away what happened and just didn't have enough time to do a restart contrary to the obvious cockpit confusion in the Nepal crash.
I’m wondering was there a medical issue affecting PM?
Might as well call both of them on the medical issue then! Assuming the prop levers were pulled by mistake (Which as correctly mentioned by
ATC Watcher we cannot yet)