Originally Posted by
RYFQB
This might be incredibly stupid, but if the aircraft was in a flat spin, could one engine be moving backwards and ingest flames from a fire behind it?
My first instinct on that thought it "but it's also falling, so what we might think would be ingested is above it" if that makes sense. The plane falls, even in a flat spin, because a spin is a subset of a stall, and once stalled, the plane falls.