Originally Posted by
agread
I am a clueless idiot who nevertheless likes to dabble in aviation things once in awhile! I have been following this discussion/argument/slanging match with great interest and wonder why no-one has responded to Galerita yet about the possibility of a forced landing at Peak View? Too "outlandlish", if you forgive the horrible pun? Sounds like a reasonable possibility to me, who knows nothing. What about somebody who knows something?
Probably because the simultaneous loss of 4 engines. Let’s just say 2, would likely be unprecedented for the aircraft and engine type and a semi-controlled landing would not lead to such a catastrophic and total loss of the airframe. A little like the 182 on the day before?, if it lost its single engine only, you’d sort of have expected a somewhat intact airframe and not a fireball.