Anyway that night Taff reached forward at take off and retarded a throttle. There ensued a frenzy of activity whereby the Co misidentified the HP cock of the engine and switched off the adjacent one. The Engineer saw the HP cock off and retarded the appropriate throttle on his own panel and switched off the wrong LP cock . The Captain was now double asymmetric and tried to restart an engine which they all cocked up and the remaining engine spluttered to a halt for want of fuel. The mighty Hastings was then utterly quiet in the night sky
HP and LP cocks in a piston-engined aircraft? I don't think so...
There is no way a Hastings would have remained airborne with so many engines failed / mishandled; I simply don't believe this tale.
Neither would a single engine shut down any time after V
1 have been a problem for the C-130.