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Old 23rd Nov 2013, 03:00
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What about Kegworth? Stretching it a bit, I admit, and they were already on the home stretch, but one stopped producing power because it went bang, the other because it was shut down.
Stretching it quite a bit I'd say. Big difference between shutting down a perfectly good engine in response to the failure of the other engine, and a legitimate independent failure of both engines.

Granted, it wouldn't be nearly as bad had it happened on a 4 banger, but adding engines to protect against the crew shutting down the wrong engine after a failure isn't a particularly convincing argument
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