Originally Posted by
RAT 5
I'm not an IT wizzkid, more a dinosaur. Please excuse: but as an engineer/pilot of sorts I would like to think that in the event of having to evacuate and switch off a working system, by a 'kill switch' it would not be harmful and uncontrolled.
That's why the Big Red Button is never to be used. It's there to cut all power immediately to protect (for instance) the fire brigade. In aircraft terms, it's like hitting the engine fire extinguisher.
The difference it that the aircraft engine isn't throwing tons of information at several hundred other engines at the time.