Originally Posted by
vanHorck
lost in saigon
why do you think there was still partial power in one of the engines?
I cannot remember any fact to this effect having been published
No one has factually said that the engines were both dead either.
With the British Airways 777 in LHR, everyone assumed that both engines had stopped running. They were all wrong.
It is reasonable to expect that even a severely damaged engine would still produce partial power. Even at idle power, the generator and hydraulic pump would continue to supply the aircraft systems.