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We know that the switches physically moved from the run to the cutoff position because one of the pilots noted that they were in the wrong position. We know that they were moved back to the run position because they found in that position. I don't understand how a short could explain that - it really seems like someone would have had to physically move the switches.

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What we have is reported speech: "In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so."

So we don't know the exact words used. Did he say for example, "Why did you move the switches to cutoff" or did he ask "Why did you cut off the engines"? If there are indeed two shorts (astronomically low as those probabilities are), the other pilot would say "I didn't", look around confused and then (possibly?) flip both of them down and back up? Which could explain the 4s delay in pulling them back up.

Speculation, but since we do not have actual transcripts or recordings, all I'm doing is answering speculation with more speculation.

Do we know that the pilot noticed they were in the wrong physical position, or did some other status indicate the engie fuel had been cut? I would be surprised if there was only one channel for this information

In the last mentour pilot livestream, they showed the simulator and both engines, and there's a little graphic near the cutoffs showing engine state and performance. Also, in _this_ livestream as soon as the report was released, Ben mentions in response to a question that if you cut off the engine, a lot of electrical systems are going to face power cuts, so there will be alarms blaring all over the cockpit. So, yes. There are many channels of information here.

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