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Old 14th Jan 2019, 16:08
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that flew single engine for TWO HOURS to land at Goose Bay?
I wouldn't get too excited about that; there are now, or very soon will be, ETOPS flights which allow up to 7 hours to reach a diversion after losing one engine. (I admit that I'm assuming that Airbus managed this for the A350, I haven't bothered to keep up. And 330 minutes sounds just as bad, to me.)

Not with me on board; but if you have faith in statistics you can enjoy the 420 minutes struggling along on one engine over the chilly ocean. Sorry; for "struggling" read "cruising happily", that was just a lapse by this old dinosaur. What we ODs just cannot grasp is that so long as you maintain your ETOPS aircraft a little bit better, a double-engine failure in a twin is, well, just impossible. Isn't it?
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