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To: ikka
What is the joke about twin-engine planes... that the first engine failure will take you all the way to the crash site.

I only fly single engine airplanes. Seems to me, a twin engine aircraft is exactly twice as likely to lose an engine as a single.

19 posted on 03/04/2005 12:48:32 AM PST by C210N
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To: C210N
Seems to me, a twin engine aircraft is exactly twice as likely to lose an engine as a single.

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Ahhhhh.... but the second fan is SOOOOO comforting during single pilot night/IMC

(Instrument Meteorological Conditions...for those of you in Rio Linda, thats
when ya can't see nothin outside)

21 posted on 03/04/2005 6:36:31 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: C210N
Seems to me, a twin engine aircraft is exactly twice as likely to lose an engine as a single.

But the probability that both will fail simultaneously is the square of the probability of a single failure.

22 posted on 03/04/2005 6:45:23 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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