No Captain is ever going to be satisfied until he can reply to the Flt. Eng, telling him that No. 8 has failed, with the response ' which side ? "
Not quite there, but there's always the dreaded 7-engine approach on the B52!
Technically there is nothing to guarantee that all four engines won't stop at exactly the same time - why not ?
They have done in the past, such as BA flight 009.
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