PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - US FAA investigates Continental 777 engine failure at Newark
Thread: US FAA investigates Continental 777 engine failure at Newark
View Single Post
Old 9th Apr 2007, 21:37
  #30 (permalink)  
Stoic
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: England
Posts: 145
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
What is the ETOPS engine failure rate?
I see from another thread that a Delta twin lost an engine today and the Continental to Tel Aviv on this thread lost one on 20 March.

Can anyone enlighten me on the current running failure rate of ETOPS aircraft? I have always understood that ETOPS engine shutdowns are supposed to be so rare as to be negligible. But 2 failures in 3 weeks intuitively seems to me to be a rather high frequency.

Thanks in anticipation.

Stoic
Stoic is offline  
Reply