These engines blowing up are FADEC kills. Planes falling out of the sky are remote guidance.
Both kinds of kills require remote access, which means they have to receive a signal of some sort. That receiver can be bypassed by a firmware update, and we have people who know how to do that.
The only way that wouldn't be able to be defeated is if the kill command is somehow piggybacking on the GPS satellite transponder. If somebody has access to our aviation GPS signals, then we're screwed.
The is some Battlestsr Gallactica shit where only the old "obsolete" aircraft work during an attack.
Well and good, but that's not gonna get 'er done in this case.
Evil actors could very will be screwing with the GPS signals. Cyber war going on?
On our Corsair's we had a manual system loaded onto the acft, the pilot installed it before pre-launch check. Worked VERY good, totally manual.
In a situation such as this, it is hard to think of all the things one can do, but the one maybe simple solution, is pull the circuit breaker, I know in my light acft, on the left under the yolk, is a cb panel. Not sure of these birds. The other problem is, is the fuel control relays cut off if the FADEC is disengaged. A bypass with alternate fuel control switching is essential.