(February 6, 2015 at 10:36 am)JuliaL Wrote: I fully agree with your assessment based on my limited information.
Where did you hear that it was the right engine which failed? All I heard was the report of a flameout without specifying which side.
BBC were reporting it based on the initial FDR data. According to them the right engine actually spooled back to idle, but without showing any typical indications of failure. This is possibly what caused the confusion, although there could well be more to it than that
I don't like to criticise fellow pilots without all the information, and these things are a lot easier to diagnose afterwards than at the time. There was also a training captain on the jumpseat, and I can't imagine why he wouldn't have noticed them shutting down the wrong engine - it's a lot easier to see these things when you're not flying the aircraft. This is why I suspect it was a little more complicated. It would worry me greatly if 3 pilots shut down the wrong engine.
Unfortunately safety standards in some parts of the world aren't the same as in the West, in terms of training and maintenance.
