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If the engine had just failed, they would very likely have been fine. Experienced crew, would likely have handled it. But the engine came off the wing, and the
by SoftTalker 1y ago
If the engine had just failed, they would very likely have been fine. Experienced crew, would likely have handled it. But the engine came off the wing, and then another engine was damaged. At that point there was no recovery possible.
- foldr 1y agoThis is understating it. Any minimally competent crew should be able to handle a single engine failure on takeoff (in a normal scenario, not this one). It’s absolutely within the performance envelope of the aircraft and is something that crew train for. If pilots were not routinely able to handle this kind of failure, we’d see a lot more crashes.
- bombcar 1y agoThe pilots did (apparently) exceptionally well keeping the plane level even with unbalanced weight and nearly no thrust; perhaps they had been over water they’d even have been able to ditch successfully.
- ImPostingOnHN 1y agoThis is still understating it. Any barely competent crew should be able to handle a single engine failure on takeoff (in a normal scenario, not this one).