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Old 13th Aug 2010, 06:50
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IO540
 
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Hanging around in the vicinity of some maintenance shops, the only catastrophically failed engines I have seen personally were on twins.

All were old engines - not that I believe this means a huge amount in itself, because one of them, with a broken conrod sticking out of the crankcase, had come out of a (UK) overhaul shop hours earlier.

Fuel exhaustion / mismanagement incidents are far more common.
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