Well here is a guess for you chaps....The Captain was flying and "between them" they managed to shut off the fuel to the wrong engine... and did not notice or if they did they were unable to recover the situation at their altitude in the time available.
Be interesting to see from the CVR who was talking from the aircraft to ATC and if he was also managing the situation and also flying it at the same time manually....interesting to see also exactly how good the challenge response to an emergency shut down drill was being performed and what is the SOP response to an abnormal drill and check list policy with this airline...
i.e. who fly's the plane and who manages the situation and who does the drill and how he is monitored...if at all!
Clear and precise and disciplined CRM responses by a two man crew with an American Captain who is newly flying with an Indian and also possibly an Indonesian in the cockpit... all of whom may not have Queens English as their first priority in an emergency situation would probably not have helped.
All flying licences and submitted experience hopefully will be checked and found correct.
One can only hope this will be properly investigated and some good will come out of this sad loss of life...
Last edited by 40&80; 6th Jun 2012 at 21:15.