Jim Stewart wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
From a friend at Airbus.
It all sounds about right. Also, since it took them so long to close
the thrust levers, I'm guessing this was not a flight crew, but a
maintenance crew. The parking brake is either on or off on that
airplane.

Before or after the crash?


They disengaged it and used the toe brakes 11 seconds before impact.

The speculation over on pprune was that the
engine controls were sheared along with the
cockpit, leaving no way to shutdown the engines.
One of them ran for several hours before burning
off all the fuel.

Entirely possible.

It seems amazing that everything needed to
keep the engine running would still be intact
with the cockpit hanging by a few threads.


All the engine needs is fuel.

Wouldn't generators, fuel pumps and/or FADEC
shut the engine down with such a mess?


Nope. All you need is a running engine to keep an engine running.
I hadn't heard that the engine was still running, though.
Remember, anyone can post on PPrune, just like here.


Bertie