NOD,
Obviously a single engine failure is not a singular reason to fall out of the sky, please don't be so patronising. I don't rule it out to being a hole in the Swiss cheese though. Something like that can set off a chain of events - i.e. it's the start.
I would rather at this stage believe that than the version where they just stalled a perfectly serviceable A/C into the ground with both engines running.
Lost in Siagon,
Besides, there have been numerous reports of the engines working prior to the crash.
and you don't think that a witness hearing engine noise could be hearing the live engine when trying to recover then ?
Some here are wondering what 'loaded them up' - a flame out would certainly have got their attention.