"Dead Leg, Wrong Engine": How Fight–Flight–Freeze Turns a Manageable Failure into a Fatal One

Written from the perspective of an accident investigator (Roos notes he holds no multi-engine rating), the article uses his Cranfield accident-simulation week and the Kegworth, TransAsia 235, Transair 810 and BAC One-Eleven cases to show how startle leads crews to misidentify and shut down the good engine. Distils a kneeboard EFATO script — Identify, Verify, Confirm, Execute — and argues that training by design excludes the FFF response that causes the real-world errors. Manuscript title: 'Dead Foot, Wrong Engine'.