From: Adam 

Steve Ewing wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:44:38 -0500, Mark  wrote:
>
>> Remarkably, the plane involved is the same one that blew an engine on
>> takeoff last week, ran out of fuel, and forced to make an emergency
>> landing in Manchester -- and the
>> engine that failed yesterday was the replacement for the first failure:
>
>
> Sheer coincidence.  The plane, BTW, diverted to Manchester because of
> lower-than-expected tailwinds, not headwinds as in some reports; and it
> was a diversion due to not having enough fuel to meet the safety
> margins  of potential delays, circling, etc. -- the way the reports read
> it  staggered into Manchester on fumes.
>
> The second problem was an oil pressure alarm, shut down in-flight; the
> first was on take-off and a bit egregious: sure, it *can* (and did)
> safely  fly LA to England on three engines, but should it?
>
> Salon's "Ask The Pilot" covered this in the last two weeks.
>

It does raise some fun questions wrt ETOPS though.

Imagine if that had been a 777.....I think the level of concern would have
been greater.

Adam

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