My takeaway was less that the switches are not easy to actuate (they even made the point that there are no guards as there are on some of the other switches) but that a healthy fear is drilled into every properly trained pilot of touching them without a well thought out reason, and coordination with the other pilot at the controls.
Both engine fuel control switches that, if pulled while in flight, cut power to the engines, transitioned from the “run” to “cutoff” settings as the plane took off, according to the report. That deprived the engines of fuel, preventing the plane from being able to lift off.
Weird to see such a glaring error in this article.
Both engine fuel control switches that, if pulled while in flight, cut power to the engines, transitioned from the “run” to “cutoff” settings as the plane took off, according to the report. That deprived the engines of fuel, preventing the plane from being able to lift off.
Weird to see such a glaring error in this article.