The CO ( exPeople Express) 747 at LGW had to have 2 engines changed before its return to USA.....
If I remember right .....One engine failed at T/O , another surged constantly......believe that a pax had a video just after T/O of the No. 4 with plenty of flames from the jet pipe and the ground alarmingly close.....
Max weight, Max X-wind, ........also seem to recall that flight was to Maimi, but was alway flight planned to Washington, as it could always make that distance, and then if the gods were favourable it would refile during the flight to Maimi.
Anyone confirm this ?
Any practices like this still continue ??