Originally Posted by
tdracer
There is a note in the 747 manual regarding performing a landing with two engines out on the same side - don't recall the exact wording but the jest of it is "Go-Around from final approach is not recommended". Don't remember it this was noted in the manual, but the go-around thrust setting was less than takeoff because - with two engines out on the same side - if you set takeoff thrust you'd run out of rudder...
Every time I'd see that, I'd think "Two engines out on one side, then having to do a go-around? Talk about having a bad day!"
Was it a People's Express or Continental 747-200 that lost power on both left hand engines due to turbulence off hangars while taking off from Gatwick in the 1980s? Struggled over Russ Hill, friend was working in Newman House and said it disappeared from view behind the trees and they waited for the eruption of black smoke...