to shut down or not to
Clearly the #2 engine was what started this whole fendengo. That was the culprit engin...whether by analogous indications, unwanted autofeather, or just plane flameout.So that engine should have been shut down.reducing ITT is the easiest indication of an engine flameout.
If in their muddle they shut down engine one and left the shutting down of eng 2 incomplete..that was what gave them all that unwanted drag and lost speed control in the process whilst panicking where to terminate the flight.The river and its easuaries gave them plenty of ditching options and that rever bed being shallow would have been advantageous in terms of evacuation.
Perhaps having shut the wrong engine(had they realised it) better to have moved CL2 to FSO.Then dry motor eng #1. Before starting it to purge any fuel and insure against a hung start.With engine one started and eng 2 shut down..they woukld have been able to climb away to their single engine ceiling whilst sorting the problem with 2 or simply return and land in controllable condition.
I also wonder if PL2 was retarded out of the TO notch..because that hard roll over would have been caused by sudden excess power from eng2 if it it unfeathered itself and the PL was in the notch...especially if climb sequence wasn't yet performed and hence TO torque kicked in with the PMS selector on TO.
It was the drag mess they got themselves in that betrayed helpless state..
Last edited by Trackdiamond; 9th Feb 2015 at 06:33.