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Old Sep 8, 2015 | 11:29 pm
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Originally Posted by dera
The plane will have adequate thrust to take off and land, but an uncontained engine failure can cause collateral damage that makes the plane uncontrollable (Sioux City / UA232 for example).

People at GE (or RR, not sure which engines this plane has) will be very interested on what caused such catastrophic damage. This definitely is not how it is designed to fail.

This plane just turned into one spare engine, some spare avionics, and alot of scrap metal.
If this was a 788, there would be no scrap metal, just lots of melted composites....
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