It was planned to leave the tower with 3 engines turned off. During flight two more engines appear to have flamed out (shut down). Starship is unique in that i

It was planned to leave the tower with 3 engines turned off. During flight two more engines appear to have flamed out (shut down). Starship is unique in that it has so many engines, which add redundancy. They can (re)start engines mid-flight. With the loss of 5 engines, this demo flight would have been fine. Though they will have some work to do on reliability.