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Old Nov 1, 2006 | 5:18 pm
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Originally Posted by zoonil
Incidently, the LONGEST non-land segment is between the western USA (LAX, SFO, SEA etc.) to the Hawaiian islands. That is the longest segment over water and practically no land over the 2500 mile journey..
And this is almost exclusively flown by 2 engine aircraft (737/757/757/777).

Just remember, that 2 engine aircraft are built to fly on one engine for quite a while.
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