Sadly this type of problem (although this may not be the reason for this particular crash) is not associated with only military jets.

I am aware of the fact that at Prestwick Aiport in the UK is just one place where they had a pilot flying a commercial aircraft and got mixed up with which engine was the feathered engine (prop aircraft in this instance) and throttled the wrong one and crashed (this was with an instructor pilot on board also I believe, but could be wrong).

This is a hazard for anyone living near an airport where they like to do training type manouvres (usually airports where they don’t have to pay high landing charges – as a touch-and-go is still logged as a landing).

Perhaps it’s an idea to have a better plan for what to do if that happens than what happened here, if they’re going to be purposefully putting themselves in a position where loss of control is possible. For example, maybe single engine landing practice should occur on a runway that projects out over water.

But I’ve also not seen that reported much, so I don’t know if it’s accurate or not.

I have a question though.. F/A-18s have two engines. How can engine failure bring one down? I suppose if one explodes and frags the other that could do it, but I imagine there’s shielding between them in an attempt to prevent that. I suppose it’s also possible for the engine to fail at exactly the wrong time where the power of one engine isn’t enough to recover, but unless the plane is heavily loaded with munitions I don’t see that happening.