She’s a liberal and a hypocrite, and I refuse to click on a “Cosmopolitan” link, but it would be a bit frightening to lose both engines on an aircraft. I suppose a lighter “Lear Jet” type of plane might be able to glide for a short way, perhaps more than a larger aircraft, but no one wants to test that...
Check out the story of the Gimli Glider...a 757 that ran out of fuel and had to glide to an airport.
As noted, the Gimli Glider was a 767 that lost both engines over the Atlantic due to a miscalculation during fuel loading. They glided several hundred miles back to land, finally touching down at the decommissioned airfield at Gimli in Canada while the airstrip was being used by an amateur racing club. Fortuitously, the pilot of the airliner was a sailplane hobbyist, and so was uniquely suited to the emergency. Those big airliners have surprisingly good glide ratios.
I clicked on it; it doesn’t say anything else about the experience, just what Cosmo hopes she’ll do about it.
Glides as well as an F4J???