By Greg Waldron2021-01-25T04:22:00+00:00 A US Air Force (USAF) crew shut down their only good engine prior to the fatal crash of a Bombardier E-11A communications aircraft in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. The aircraft (11-9358) was operating a routine mission from Kandahar on 27 January 2020 when its left engine lost a fan blade, causing it to shut down and creating significant vibration. Source: US Air Force A US Air Force E-11A at Kandahar in 2018 About 24s after this, the crew, apparently confused about which engine had failed, shut down the right engine. “The aircraft was approximately 230 nautical miles (426km) from Kandahar Airfield when the dual engine out occurred, and neither engine airstarted to provide any usable thrust,” says the USAF Air Combat Command.