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Old 31st Aug 2002, 02:16
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Old Age84 < you are right- I stand corrected... it was UAL with P&W's (I double checked on the web) my mistake...on the plus side I might look ignorant but I don't look like an anorak, eh...

All the 12 hours worrying about nuthin'......jees...<

No worries, the GE Quality Dept could use some prayers


>If the odds of both engines failing on a twin are so slim, then what was the reasoning behind CX grounding their RR powered 330's a few years ago (after an increase in engine failures)
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The concern was that with such a small fleet with just another two or three IFSD that the probability could have worsened by a factor of a thousand. What you do in a case like that is *restrict* the operations while you sort out the suspect population. Not a big deal with small fleets BTDT
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