ETOPS CERTIFCATION

[KLOS]

If an airline with ETOPS certification and using the relevant aircraft on a non ETOPS sector has an engine failure, does that construe a 'strike' on the certification or only if occurring on an ETOPS sector?. Also would a both engine 'problem' :eek: on the aircraft attrbutable to the same cause constitute two 'strikes' or just one? Would a double 'problem' of separate causes constitute two 'strikes' ?

Thanks

[Groundloop]

A failure of an engine of a similar type with any airline anywhere in the World would count as a "strike" as you put it - unless it can be shown that the failure was caused by something specific to the other airline, such as poor maintenance.

ETOPS reliability statistics are based on worldwide statistics.

[KLOS]

Thanks for your reply.

I was under the impression that each airline had to be certified not just the aircraft type i.e. the airline would be certified for ETOPS unless it had a given number of failures which could be attributed to poor maintenance and then ETOPS operations would be disallowed.