Thank you Enginefailure. I think someone before (and far more eloquently than me) has said in effect that we can analyse up to the point of departure all we like but from the moment they took the emergency into the air there is no point in any of this idle speculation. For that is all that it is, Jacko asks should Marty have stayed at 100’ rather than climb to 200’? Really, have you every flown at 100’?, if the flight deck was at 100’ think what height the tail would be, think how close to a tree or other obstruction that would be. It is quite possible that by staying at 100’ he would have impacted earlier.
So far we have criticised the last actions of a dead FE a Dead Captain and I suspect very soon we will start on the FO.
PLEASE, what can we learn from dissecting these last desperate minutes? The signal to shut down engine 2 COULD have been visual but that is as speculative as anything else on this thread. The only thing further speculation on the FLIGHT action serves is some vicarious morbid fascination that I find unseemly.