As for the repeatedly qualified "uncommanded" of the shutting down of N2 engine, read the CVR, and you clearly see that even not closed once, the captain had orderred the shutting down seconds laters
( -Marty: "Tu coupe le moteur 2 là?"
-FE "J'ai coupé".)
And the sentences don't mean "Have you shutted the engine two?" but, without question, "Will you Shut down engine two at last?", and even a sligthly impatient kind of order.
And for v2, which V2 are you talking of? V2 originaly planned, V2 for 3 engines or V2 for 2 engines?
I've just posted above than they just NEVER SOULD HAVE REACHED V2 FOR 2 ENGINES, even under MTOW...
[ 24 August 2001: Message edited by: MGloff ]