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.
I saw that on Air Emergency on National Geo. Fascinating story-they main "failure" was that neither pilot had much experience in the new model of the plane and when they smelled smoke in the cockpit they shut down the wrong engine because in the old model that engine had been the sole source of AC. However, in the new model, both engines fed the AC.