Originally Posted by
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Back in those times, one of my colleagues once did a precautionary shutdown on one engine (in a C404 IIRC) over Spain and flew all the way home to Germany on one engine in the middle of the night. Try this with a single...
From the moment your colleague shut down the engine, they
were effectively flying a single across Europe in the middle of the night, and one with less performance than most. IMO a questionable decision not to land at the nearest suitable airfield.