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More engines means more to fail

• echelon 6y ago
  You're correct. I should have been specific. Between the two, are two engine aircraft or four engine aircraft responsible for more deaths? Normalized for number of aircraft/flights over a fixed time period.
  • hodgesrm 6y ago
    Modern two engine aircraft are amazingly reliable, but there are rare cases where they have lost both engines. BA Flight 38 crash landed on approach to Heathrow due to ice in the fuel clogging heat exchangers for both engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777#Accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777#Accidents_and_incid...
    • jabl 6y ago
      Yes, but would more engines have helped in that case? If that problem stopped both engines, chances are the same problem would have stopped all 4 engines on a 4 engine plane as well. So you'd need to look at cases where independent failures cause both engines on a twin engine plane to fail. I'd guess those are quite rare.
  • bayesianbot 6y ago
    I'd guess you'll have such a small sample of engine related fatal crashes, that comparing the two numbers (per total persons flown) would be completely random result