Originally Posted by Oldlae
I didn't mean by the simulator, I meant that the drill carried out by the pilots undergoing checks etc in the simulator, could have shown up the anomaly when the shut-down procedure was shared between the two.
Only if the simulation included severing of the wiring from the fire handle to the spar fuel valve. Otherwise the valve would have just closed when the fire handle was operated, and no anomaly would have shown.
Is it common in the simulator to simulate such specific damages?
Maybe, just maybe, Boeing should have objected to BA's checklist for unmodifed aircraft, but who knows.
Bernd