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by subw00f 965 days ago
Even if he could shut down the engines, the plane doesn’t fall immediately from the sky. They would have plenty of time to turn them on again.
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Discharging the fire bottle into the engine complicates things a bit.
That depends a lot on the flight phase. Losing all engine power seconds after take-off is very often not recoverable.