Originally Posted by higney85

The problem was that in the procedures at the time the emergency "profile" did not call to nose it over and GAIN speed, the engines on the -200 are reliable but underpowered and in the event of a flameout they will corelock if you dont get more airflow through them. The 300kts is the newer way, and if they HAD done that they would have had a chance. They were very unprofessional and its unfortunate that it took their lives, but if the flight had a flameout at FL350 with 50 people and everyone was professional they would have had the same issue to contend with (core lock), now if/when it happens the crew will follow the procedures to keep the temps down and give them a chance for the airstart. Someone else's mistakes is everyone's free lesson.