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How do you do searches like that JJ?

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Some new fangled technology called google or something, I don't remember exactly [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Someone I know was supposed to be on TWA 800 after her mothers funeral, but the flight was overbooked and she didnt get on.

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Anyone know if commercial planes(say a 757) can still fly if one of the engines blow up? It really is amazing that more of these things don't go down with all the planes in the sky.

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Anyone know if commercial planes(say a 757) can still fly if one of the engines blow up? It really is amazing that more of these things don't go down with all the planes in the sky.

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http://blog.flightstory.net/74/thoms...rike-captured/

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Anyone know if commercial planes(say a 757) can still fly if one of the engines blow up? It really is amazing that more of these things don't go down with all the planes in the sky.

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they can fly sans an engine

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Has anyone ever had problems in mid air?


Anyway this article is encouraging.
Flying aticle

It appears that all modern planes can operate normally on one engine so if something goes wrong mid air you should be fine and if all the engines fail at crusing altitude you are still likely to be fine b/c the plane can glide to safety. They have a 85 mile gliding range if both engines die at 35K feet which is comforting to know b/c I always thought they go into divebomb mode if they lose power. It seems the main problem is when they lose power during takeoff or landing.

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i was at the toronto airport a couple of years ago when there was a minicrash (i think a plane slid off the runway; nobody was killed iirc). we could see and smell the smoke coming from the plane. i don't recall what the monitor said, though.

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Has anyone ever had problems in mid air?


Anyway this article is encouraging.
Flying aticle

It appears that all modern planes can operate normally on one engine so if something goes wrong mid air you should be fine and if all the engines fail at crusing altitude you are still likely to be fine b/c the plane can glide to safety. They have a 85 mile gliding range if both engines die at 35K feet which is comforting to know b/c I always thought they go into divebomb mode if they lose power. It seems the main problem is when they lose power during takeoff or landing.

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Planes throttle down the engines a great deal when they are like 50-100 miles away from the destination airport to conserve fuel.

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Has anyone ever had problems in mid air?


Anyway this article is encouraging.
Flying aticle

It appears that all modern planes can operate normally on one engine so if something goes wrong mid air you should be fine and if all the engines fail at crusing altitude you are still likely to be fine b/c the plane can glide to safety. They have a 85 mile gliding range if both engines die at 35K feet which is comforting to know b/c I always thought they go into divebomb mode if they lose power. It seems the main problem is when they lose power during takeoff or landing.

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reading the article about the gimli glider scared the hell out of me.

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I actually have wondered that myself OP.


Airplane crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor