Originally Posted by
raehl311
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.
My statement at the very beginning clearly showed 'would have been disastrous' because all the unexpected events' that I could think of. My objective of the post was to brainstorm a set of events that I thought could happen. I am no aviation expert nor I pretend to be in any shape of form. I just need to know the odds of what would or wouldn't happen. EWR764, TA, and HNLBasedFlyer gave me the answers, and that's all I needed to know.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Feb 15, 2018 at 1:36 pm
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