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[Avengers] Why didn't Hawkeye just shoot an exploding arrow into each engine of the Helicarrier then explode them all at once in the first Avengers?

Obviously he was trying to take It all down since later he shoots an arrow that hacks the system into some kind of computer port. I feel like it would have just been way easier to quietly shoot an arrow into each engine then explode them all at once.
gpt
He wasn't trying to kill the Avengers, most of them would survive the carrier being destroyed (and Loki has little desire to kill his brother). He was trying to cause havoc so 1) Loki could escape with the scepter, and 2) Loki could provoke the Hulk into going on a rampage. A crashed carrier is nothing compared to a rampaging Hulk. The plan was to cause so much trouble for the Avengers that the invasion of New York would be unopposed.