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Old 06-15-2021 | 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
I don't recall any jet where the engine fail procedure is TOGA or firewall, as far as I can recall it's always thrust lever idle, then restart checklist.

Now with a dual flameout at low altitude it would be within PIC discretion to try firewall thrust, but I don't think it's SOP and in this case would have clearly risked a catastrophic mechanical failure.
I wonder if the person who mentioned going to TOGA thrust wasn’t confusing a dual engine flame out with a single engine drift down where MCT (not TOGA) is used on the good engine? Stranger things have happened when the untrained and uninformed comment on technical subjects.
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