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Planes must be able to do this to be certified.

• ceejayoz 6y ago
  Well, assuming they have two+. A C-172 isn’t gonna fly too far with an engine out.
  • tialaramex 6y ago
    But, the pilot should be assuming that its single engine will fail, and prepared for that eventuality when it's most likely, which is during take off. Every flight the person sat at the controls ought to already know, before they're accelerating down the runway, what they're going to do when (not if, if you keep flying these little prop planes you've got to assume it'll happen eventually) the engine quits. What's beyond that airfield fence? A carpark? A pond? A school? The "impossible turn" (landing where you took off) might legitimately be a valid strategy for your failure in some circumstances if you've thought it through, but if you're doing it because you had no plan you're very likely to find out why they call it that.