Originally Posted by
bud leon
And it would be extremely difficult or more like impossible to apply statistics to this, with only two of these events and both different, in fact I imagine identical bird strikes would be rare. You would have to compare equivalent forces, the bird strikes would need to have hit both engines while taking off. This is where statistics can be dangerous tools in the wrong hands.
You can't differentiate these events from chance, not even with Poisson process, which really isn't applicable to this in my opinion.
That's what I've been saying all along!!! Let's go back to four engines! A340-500 FOREVER!