Comment by shash
1 day ago
They did, about 10 seconds later (which is both incredibly short and an eternity). But the engines almost immediately start losing thrust and it takes them much more time to restart. At the end of the flight, FDR records that one engine was gaining thrust, and the other was attempting to spin up, but it was too late and they didn't have enough glide time for both to gain enough thrust to climb.
Yeah 30 seconds is not much. This is really the worst phase of flight for this to happen. 30 seconds later and the plane would have had much more altitude and energy