Originally Posted by
krismiler
I was questioning the location of critical components underneath the engine with the Sioux City DC10 in mind, a turbine failure managed to sever all the hydraulic lines due to them being concentrated in a small area. Standard military doctrine is to spread things out, be it soldiers not bunching up whilst on patrol or aircraft parked close together. Unfortunately it appears that aircraft engines don't offer too much freedom in this area.
Hmmm, dunno. Are we really discussing about making airliners tolerant against landing on the engines and still being able to fly away afterwards???
How about not landing on the pods in the first place and if you can't help the urgency to land on the pods then simply leave it on the ground afterwards?
What other 'interesting' ideas do we want to make the planes idiot- proof against?!