Tunturi:
I belive the incident you are refering to was actually a Delta B-767, the shut down both engines (Accidently) by moving the fuel control levers to "Cut-Off".
The joke at the time was something about Delta's highly efficient Noise Abatment Procedure.
If Eastern had a similar one, I don't remember it.
(Yes EAL had one incident where they shut down one engine on a L-1011 due to loss of oil pressure/quantity, then the same happened to the remaining 2 engines. They re-started the first one and limped back to MIA.
The reason was a wrong oil seal, or the seal installed the wrong way...)
UA had a 747 incident years ago: They lost 3 of the 4 mills and glided into Japan or somewhere. Forgot the exact reason, but fuel managment was probably a player.
(The captain was not in the cockpit at the time.)
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