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Old 15th May 2009 | 21:43
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lomapaseo
 
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Now I see what was on your mind.

The issue seems to be the presumption of "flame-out".

Let's be careful about this. A true flame-out implies the burner going unlit and the engines spooling down to windmill. It is extremely rare except in cases of fuel starvation. Yes if so it does require a time consuming restart procedure.

Birds are not likely to cause such a flame out. In most cases it is the pilots decision to turn off the flame to secure a misbehaving engine.

While I'm not a 100% sure yet in the Hudson accident it doesn't seem to me that they ever shut down the engines.
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