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Old 17th Dec 2009, 19:18
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can you recollect the last time any MEP had a double engine failure that, at very least, didn't have some form of pilot contribution?
It depends on what you mean by "pilot contribution". I know a man who was flying a Baron and got fuel icing at ~ FL200 over the N Sea. The engines did not restart until 2000ft and he was still > 100nm away from anywhere.

The day after, he put it up for sale.

So it doesn't have to be fuel exhaustion, though it could be argued that in that case it was a failure to add IPA or whatever.

I know sod-all about twins but I know that some of them have "interesting" fuel systems with various fuel metering mismanagement options.
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