Originally Posted by WRCSolberg
I'm a pilot and I've flown twin engined planes before.
That being said, who in god's name "accidently" shuts down an engine? There's only two engines there, it's pretty difficult to get confused. Especially when one of said engines is incinerating itself. If you're such an expert, why would someone shutdown a perfectly good engine when the other one was on fire? "Accidently" shutting down one engine is just as improbable as shutting down three engines because both cases are nearly impossible.
I still don't get why you consider twin engines planes less safe because of this one incident. That's an ignorant thing to say.
1.I didn't say "accidentally", I said "mistakenly". It wasn't like he was setting down a cup of coffee during normal flight and "accidentally" shut down an engine. It was an emergency situation, he thought he was shutting down the engine that was on fire and mistakenly shut down the good one.
2.I never said that I was an expert.
3.I don't consider twin engine aircraft unsafe. I just said that I feel more comfortable with three or four engines (Thread title: "Aircraft preferences") and offered the British Midlands incident as an example where, in my opinion, the flight probably would not have crashed had it been a four engine aircraft. I even stated in my post "I would agree that this is an extremely rare case..."
4.I think that posting "That's an ignorant thing to say" was uncalled for.