A new report on long range flights may underplay the hazard of two or more engines lost to the same failure, and of the potential for electrical malfunctions to ignite fires that could spread before a safe landing could be carried out at a divert airfield. The report is significant for its implications in a number of respects: It goes a long way toward cleaning up the regulatory and policy patchwork that has come to characterize ETOPS (extended range twin-engine…
Procedures Proposed to Protect Safety of Long Range Flights
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