ORIGINAL: FHHuber

Experienced help might have found the mechanical problem before take-off... that might have saved the plane.

A plane going down from loss of power... If the piilot was trained properly, he would know how to handle it, and have a much improved chance of getting it down safely. Dead-sticks can be the cause of a crash, but usually, there was something else going bad at the same time if it was saveable just by keeping the engine running another 5 seconds. (and if 5 seconds wouldn't have saved it... it was going in engine or no engine)