I think I'd better step in on AMF's pathetic posting:
Um, unless it's a Heathrow-bound whale that loses an engine on T/O out of LAX....right, Mr. BA Spokesman?
Quite wrong, Mr. AMF! The crew took the outrageous decision, exactly as I would have done, that it was better and safer to proceed on 3 engines (heavens above, some airlines have been known to set off across the Pond on just
two engines
to start with!) than dump God knows how many tons of fuel in the LAX area and land back. I shutdown an engine on the N Atlantic and continued to Chicago- where was the risk? 4 to 3 is not like 2 to 1.
Why are you trying to open up that irrelevant discussion again?