being under stress, switching off the wrong engine has happened in fixed wing aircraft.
then the pilot has more stress, perhaps his brain gets shock frozen in for some seconds - and he is finally doomed when flying a heli at low alt missing his entry for autorotation? or reserve fuel miscalculation. Hapag Lloyd Airbus gliding into Vienna some years ago was a 'good' example that it is sometimes the very experienced pilot who does the big mistake and then doesn't even correct it, despite P2 insisting . quite right, 2 pilots do not make sense ...
Last edited by xlsky; 12th Dec 2013 at 22:54.