Originally Posted by
PaulInTheSky
{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.
The odds of an engine failure are minuscule. The odds of a 2nd engine failing after the first one are equally minuscule.
In fact, pilots and aviation experts would absolutely guarantee the other engine would remain functional, because that's how the airplane is designed - it is designed so that the odds of an engine failure are so remote that if one fails, you can certainly still land with the other one.
That's why back in the day, when engines were less reliable, long-haul planes had 3 or 4 of them. Fortunately, due to modern engineering, an engine failure is a non-event.