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Airbus Accidents (and Lessons for Homebuilts?)

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Bill-Higdon

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Something like that would never fly in FAA certification land. Protecting the engine with an automatic shutdown or rollback that can't be overridden by the pilot makes no sense if it's done at the expense of the airframe and occupants.
One of the reason jet engines are mounted on pylons is so they can burn away and fall off the airframe or freely sling parts from the spools within a containment housing as far removed from the airframe structure as possible to minimizing damage to the airframe. EGPWS escape, microburst/windshear, all those events may require firewalling the thrust without regard to exceeding engine parameters to avoid crashing. The engines never have a feature that kicks in saying "oh no you don't Mr. Pilot" by shutting the engine down or reducing power. If the plane is going to hit the ground from a microburst, it's going to do it at or exceeding full rated power.
There was an Airbus crash due to something like this IIRC
 
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