Originally Posted by
badflaps
A while back a looney shut down both engines on a 76 out of LAX...restart,continues on to CVG... where was he living? In the Employee lot. There is always a reason.
At one time or another, I flew with both him, and later with the copilot. He was indeed, a strange bird. In the old days the EEC switches were just below the engine cutoff switches. (since moved to the overhead).Lady luck was with them that day. It was the copilot`s first leg out of training, and the flaps were still down, hence ignition was still sparking. Copilot, (first name Jeff, now retired) just put the fuel switches back on and saved a plane load of people.Then, the dumba$$ captain got on the pa and told the entire load of passengers what he did.Then proceeded to CVG. Got banished to perminent first officed status, but he just retired. Later killed in a seaplane at oshkosh.