I am not sure that this is the thread to hash up the ALPA debate.
I have said it before, unions are only as commited as the membership. The memebership at the time, decided to fight for self interest, not a principle. Management had already won on the divide and rule concept.
The outcome was a given failure.
Back to the thread.
The failed engine would have NTS'd and then auto-feathered had it failed to relight. The Fight would have lasted less than a minute, the crash site was less than 1.5nm from point of rotation. I dont see this as a 'wrong engine' issue. The crew's sim training would have precluded that.
I also dont see this as a straight engine out. The blade damage suggests something very strange. It can be seen clearly in the pics that #2 engine, the engine that had reported smoke, was turning under power at impact. # 1 is NOT feathered, but undamaged, as if stationary.
I dont even want to speculate what went wrong.