Clearly he felt he was under pressure from upper management. Would not have happened back in 1963 when the company was flight testing the radical (for the time) B727 and their engineers rightly held sway.
I watched the video of this tragedy and there is no way that he was in a landing phase. Possibly he experienced an engine failure which suddenly left him in an OEI situation in a twin at the exact time that he needed to outclimb steeply rising terrain.
If they do manage to achieve this goal, it will be achieved by stealing IP. They haven't been able to develop a reliable, efficient high bypass ratio jet engine for a subsonic commercial airliner...
I don't understand why it was necessary that the "automation" took it upon itself to shut BOTH engines down once it had detected that the a/c was on the ground. WOW switches have been known to fail. The possibility of a faulty WOW sensor/s then having the potential to hand you a double engine shutdown whilst airborne. That couldn't happen on an F28!
