Originally Posted by
Lost in Saigon
I would be very surprised to find out there is some kind of and "anomaly" which contributed to them shutting down the wrong engine.
My guess had to do with the nature of the malfunction and the display of symptoms, but you may be right that it was something well within the norm of the systems as known/trained.
Shutting down an engine is not a one step process.
Agreed. I am intimately familiar with the process, but thanks anyway for the excellent coverage you presented.
I too have done many in sims, taught many in sims, and done it for real a half a dozen times on engines that weren't playing nicely with others.
It is very difficult to imagine how this experienced 3 man crew accidentally shut down the WRONG engine if they followed the correct engine shutdown procedure.
Aye.