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Warpy

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14. They have to figure out why

Reply to Bengus81 (Reply #11)

Fri Nov 28, 2025, 03:20 PM

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Engines undergoing failure are designed to safely shear off the wing. That plane should have been able to land safely on its remaining engines. Something mangled the contols on that wing, either the engine bounced up off the tarmac and took part of the wing with it (unlikely) or some sort of shoddy maintenance was at work.

Your guess is a good one, the question is why.

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