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Old 13th Aug 2011, 18:22
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For a single hit to take out both and engine would be a golden bullet as the nacelles and fuselage protect any critical point. As the V-22 travels so much faster this is really extremely improbable (not the extremely improbable that Sikorsky used to explain the S-92, but a real one).

On the Chinook you need not only to only hit one gearbox or the shaft, but can have total loss from a seemingly minor event (initiated by a chip light):

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As most who died were parachutist many lives could have been saved by ordering an immediate evacuation instead of trying to return to the field.

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