"As also indicated above the 'fail safe' condition for loss of signal to the engine control is to continue at last demanded power, it is obviously not a satisfactory condition if a single event can lead to loss of control."
I was talking about the engines' own control systems, not the aircraft's flight controls. Each engine has a controller on it that takes the flight controls' reference command and attempts to meet it. Without this controller, the surge/stall phenomena tends to do bad things to the engine.
I'm sorry, I thought this was a technical discussion forum and not USA Today.