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A profile that guarantees exposure to a tail strike should not be called Class 2, as it will certainly result in a crash with fatalities.
Who said exposure to a tail strike was guaranteed?
Anyway, how many crashes have resulted from engine failures at critical phases of takeoff or landing, vs all the other causes of accidents? Why do we spend so much time fretting about exposure? I just have this vision of groups of learned people sitting around tables endlessly poring over performance graphs and arguing the fine points, oblivious to helicopters outside spearing in from various causes with both engines happily running. We really do have a wrong sense of priority in this industry.