Originally Posted by
Sunfish
How many times have pax asked what the red button is for - to be told it’s the wing eject button?
Seriously, a know all once told me that the reason jet engines were podded under wing was so the pilot could jettison one if it caught fire..... He swore that there were emergency jettison levers in the cockpit and nothing I could say shook his belief.
Possibly because of this apocryphal incident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_712