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Old 5th June 2020 | 04:07
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havick
 
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Don’t forget the stats are baked. They don’t take into account engines that were shut down as a precaution to an impending engine failure (oil line coming off etc).

I know I’ve had to shut down an engine at least 3 times in flight and come on home on the remaining good engine.

What I’m getting at the stats don’t really reflect the amount of aircraft that would have had an engine failure, but isn’t really recorded (apart from maybe an internal company report or NASA report etc depending on country) because it was shut down and flown back safely on remaining engine.

That being said I still have zero problems personally flying a single.
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