{H}ow about assessing any risks that are associated with the damaged fan blade of an engine that would have caused catastrophic events? While assumption was made that the other engine would stay intact throughout the flight, I am pretty sure not even the pilots or any aviation experts can guarantee the other engine stays fully operational. All the talks of ETOPS go out of the window in the event of the unexpected.
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EWR764
Apparently it occurred about 40 minutes before landing, so well past the equal time point (ETP) which is considered to be the 'critical' failure point of the flight, as it is then the longest distance from an alternate.
Any overwater engine failure in a twin is a serious emergency, but there is enough systems redundancy for the aircraft to function in an essentially normal manner (at least from a pax perspective).
So it did happen at the end of the flight. Very fortunate. There would be more alternatives for emergency landing in any operational failure in West Pacific compared to CA and HI.
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