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To: C19fan

It is really remarkable that an aircraft with only two engines hasn’t gone down. Especially with the Airbus engines exploding the past couple years.


3 posted on 11/08/2017 7:28:42 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I will not fly on an Airbus for that very reason.


4 posted on 11/08/2017 7:31:13 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Because the twin turbofan aircraft generally fly fine on one engine. In fact, some of them don’t even consider an engine failure an emergency. It’s on their checklist as an abnormal procedure.


6 posted on 11/08/2017 7:34:43 AM PST by IFly4Him
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; bk1000

It is really remarkable that an aircraft with only two engines hasn’t gone down. Especially with the Airbus engines exploding the past couple years.

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Airbus doesn’t make engines, but the reliability of two engine aircraft is remarkable.


7 posted on 11/08/2017 7:35:03 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“It is really remarkable that an aircraft with only two engines hasn’t gone down. Especially with the Airbus engines exploding the past couple years.”

The still missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was a 2 engine Boeing 777.

Air France flight 447, a two engine Airbus 330, crashed over the Atlantic Ocean June 1, 2009. All aboard were killed.


10 posted on 11/08/2017 7:39:40 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
It is really remarkable that an aircraft with only two engines hasn’t gone down.

Almost all twin engines are designed from the ground up to fly safely on only 1.
17 posted on 11/08/2017 7:47:11 AM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Airbus doesn’t make engines.

Rolls Royce, Pratt and IEA does.


34 posted on 11/08/2017 7:58:16 AM PST by JP1201
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

>>It is really remarkable that an aircraft with only two engines hasn’t gone down. <<

There was the two-engine airbus which Sully landed in NY’s East River a few years back, after both engines ate some birds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549


46 posted on 11/08/2017 8:10:14 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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