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Old Feb 15, 2018 | 9:28 am
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Originally Posted by raehl311



You made a completely uninformed post. Don't get mad when other people point it out.

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.

Anyway, in conclusion, everything in your original post was grossly wrong, and deserved to be corrected lest your misinformation be adopted by others.
That's why the US Airways "Sully" bird strike was so unique. You had an event that took out both engines.
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