Originally Posted by
ACMS
Buzz, if you suspect a fuel leak in or around the Engine ( which they did ) SOP requires Reverse thrust NOT TO BE USED as it can spread or spray the fuel all around the inside of the Engine cowling and it can ignite..............
So, they should not have even selected idle reverse at all on that Engine....
Ok.
I think it was after Manchester incident, when the thrust buckets sprayed fire over the fuselage and made a bad situation a lot worse.
In this case, they had no fire before landing (and perhaps, no suspected fuel leak). But they had already pulled #2 to idle. In that situation, I would not have deployed the bucket on #2, even on idle (little to be gained), and I would certainly not have risked applying reverse thrust for real. If the engine wasn't flight worthy, it also wasn't up to reverse on landing!
Alas the videos only show the last few seconds of roll out, so we are none the wiser...