From: "Steve Ewing" 

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.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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