Originally Posted by captwilga
Modern jet engines just don't stop until the fuel supply is cut off and autothrottle/ engine management systems don't either. When was the last time your car engine quit!
Not really a great example. My brother's modern engine managed German car has conked out three times with the same fault. When my different engine managed car went mental the mechanic knew what it was immediately. Just because the MBTF is much higher on an aircraft than a car it doesn't mean the failure won't happen eventually. Unless you can verify that absolutely nothing happened to affect the link between the flight deck and the FADECs I'd steer clear of allusions to fuel starvation.