goof error


"At the first sign of engine trouble, the crew clearly looks out of their right hand window, and at the rightmost engine. There are even a few brief shots of that engine flaming up, clearly on the right wing of the plane. However just after that, all outside shots of the plane show the leftmost propeller has stopped and the rightmost propeller spinning normally."

not true, the right engine does go out, but the crew cannot get the prop to "feather" (change the propellor pitch so the blades are aligned within the air stream reducing drag). without being able to feather the prop, it is "windmilling" or being spun by the air stream.

soon after this happens, the left engine fails, and the crew feathers that prop, so its propellor stops rotating.

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