Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Those considerations apply, of course, to any engine failure in a twin.
How many of those result in rolling almost halfway to the vertical ?
While Chesty's succinct responses are always to be admired, in this case a few more words of explanation might have helped ...
Normally when you have gotten up to the point where you are talking to center (at the higher altitudes), things are fairly relaxed (George, the autopilot is doing its thing) and direct hands-on-the-yoke is several minutes in the past. A bang and shudder takes a few seconds to determine something serious has gone wrong, and may have even gotten both sets of eyes on the engine instruments, attempting to decipher exactly what had happened, with feet not on the rudder peddles.
With those big fat dumpsters out on the wing, the drag, assuming the fan stopped fairly quickly, could be a tremendous yaw/roll.
On takeoff, your concern is complete control if such an event happens at low speed, as the ground is right there waiting, so hands and feet at literally on or near the controls on both sides. At altitude, the crew thought process is much more relaxed.