[MacAKM]

Looks like they shut off the wrong engine now

[Hogmann]

Originally Posted by MacAKM ↗

Looks like they shut off the wrong engine now

Have you got some reference for that? I know that hypothesis was thrown around a lot in the beginning but haven't heard much about it since

[Hogmann]

The initial results of an investigation into December's devastating Jeju Air crash in South Korea showed that, while the plane's both engines sustained bird strikes, its pilots turned off the less-damaged one just before its crash-landing. The finding, which implied human errors, drew quick, vehement protests from bereaved families and fellow pilots who accuse authorities of trying to shift responsibility for the disaster to the dead pilots.

smoke. But the pilots switched off the plane's left engine, the report said citing probes on the cockpit voice recorder, the flight data recorder and the engines examinations.

Sounds like they might have shut off the wrong engine. Which is hard to explain because in a situation like this there should not be a rush to shut down the engine for this very reason that you could shut down the wrong one you just keep flying the plane until things are stabilized.

[DialRain20]

So the NYTimes dropped this bombshell about the Jeju Crash, and from the looks of it, this was completely the fault of the dilweeds who built and designed the airport. I'll quote the relevant information.

https://archive.fo/GMoQh

The blunders started with a design change years before the airport opened in 2007. The original plans drawn up in 1999, and obtained by The Times, envisaged breakable foundations to anchor the antennas, known as localizers, on both ends of the runway. But at some point the design changed, and the private companies hired to build the airport used concrete.

The error was compounded when a government ministry approved the construction even though it was warned by officials that the localizers were too close to the runway. The structures’ height and material composition did not meet international standards, either.
Then, years later, regulators approved renovation works that added even more concrete to one of the walls, rendering it harder to break.

Multiple factors led to the crash. The plane was hit by birds as it neared the airport — investigators found feathers in both engines — and the pilots may have shut down an engine that sustained lesser damage than the other. But The Times has found that the solid wall at the end of the runway most likely made the accident deadlier than it would have been otherwise.

“In a way, you could say what they did was insane,” Mr. Lee said.

“There is a cause for the accident and a separate cause for the deaths,” he said.......