TransAsia ATR crash in Taiwan.

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DonnyMac said:

Although I cannot begin to imagine the stresses involved in that situation, if that is correct, shutting down the wrong engine is unforgivable, if that is what is found to have caused the accident.

Aren't both the pilots dead?

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Cobalt Blue said:

That won't stop all and sundry trying to deflect blame on the pilots. The simple fact is that if three very experienced pilots can make such a fundamental error, and with such tragic consequences, then something is badly wrong with the way information was presented to them by their instruments. For such a critical event, the state of the engines has to be shown in a way that is impossible to ignore. I read that the similar Fokker twin-turboprop has lights that flash red on the power lever of a failed engine - hardly rocket science and probably/possibly simple to install as an upgrade.

Exactly.

There is always a complex chain of events that lead up to an accident. Deciding some dead pilots actions were "unforgivable" without knowing why something happened seems a bit glib to me. It's like sky news announcing "pilot error" because it's much easier than examining why something happened.