> If you put anything I listed to “off” to kill the engine and put it back to “on”, windmilling would have restarted it. I cannot speak for the particular air

> If you put anything I listed to “off” to kill the engine and put it back to “on”, windmilling would have restarted it. I cannot speak for the particular airframe / engine / propeller configuration here, but speaking from personal experience (supervised training) one can stop the engine from windmilling on a Cessna 150 Aerobat by pulling the mixture back an slowing down. Once it is stopped, you have to dive quite steeply to start it rotating again. With regard to parachute-wearing, it is the usual practice for glider pilots, mainly because the desire to fly in rising air tends to lead to flying in close proximity to other gliders. This is a somewhat ambiguous response, so, for the record, Let me say that this looks suspiciously like a staged crash - as did that Beech Bonanza ditching off Santa Cruz some months ago. Even if Any one thing might be explained, each story is just one such thing after another. https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/on-video-guy-ditches-plane-in-pacific-suspicions-run-rampant/ https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/on-video-guy-ditche...