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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 11:45 am
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Originally Posted by Bobster
I'm not afraid of 2-engines planes, but you might want to consider British Midlands Flight 092: one engine failed, the pilots misdiagnosed the problem and shut down the good engine by mistake, leaving them with no engines. The crash killed 47. This kind of accident wouldn't happen with 4 engines.
Similar thing happened with the C5 crash at Dover AFB. Engine failure on #2. When pilot increased throttles on approach he increased throttles on 1, 2, and 4 while good engine #3 sat at idle. There's an eerie simulation video of it float around the net somewhere. Here it is: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/221930/c5_animated_crash/
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