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Old May 29, 2005 | 7:30 am
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Originally Posted by acysb87
A mighty fine plane it is.This is from personal experience

Which one? The Raytheon or the DH1? I would say both. Engine problems are engine problems and both use turboprops, likely with very similar reliability figures. And surely both can fly and land on a single engine, just like twin jets. In this respect, worse planes are four engined-ones. Which have four engines that can fail instead of two, doubling the odds. Plus, while they can fly on three, on two they usually cannot. Case in point: that 747 that crashed in Holland, was it an ElAl freighter?
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