Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Plane Engine Explodes Mid-Flight" video.

  1.  @WhatsY0UTUB3  you'd be surprised how well a lot of planes work as gliders.
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  2. I feel like this is a reference to something but that I can't remember what.
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  3.  @WhatsY0UTUB3  that one appears to be less that they lost thrust and more that they lost use of some control surfaces and breaks. Still, no fatalities, few injuries, only a couple serious injuries, and the plane was able to be reused. "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Any landing where you can also reuse the plane is a great landing." Compare also Ural Flight 178, another airbus. Didn't loose power (just birdstikes to both engines): landed in a cornfield (rather than runway like 236) with zero serious injuries. If it's just thrust gone, you're fine (especially if you still have one working engine). It's if the power goes out that you should start to worry. Commercial airliners have pretty low stall speeds, for fuel economy, to make landings softer, and to be able to land on less runway without the need for arrester cables or lots of heavy landing gear to apply more breaking force. As long as there's hydrolics to the control surfaces and flat ground to land on within gliding distance, you're mostly just looking at possible scrapes and broken bones, but unless something else goes wrong, 0% fatalities is still by far the most likely outcome.
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  4.  @WhatsY0UTUB3  true in a sense, but all definitions of safety are relative, and I was narrowing the discussion to how well they worked as gliders. Breaks+powered control surfaces+a proper airstrip is likely to produce 0 injuries, and having 1/2 engines working is even safer, because it means you've still got a large portion of the thurst...which you'd need to throttle down to land anyway. The loss of 1 engine alone is of minimal concern. You need another problem or a bad location for things to get bad enough to produce a bunch of injuries. It's mostly just dangerous in that you've lost a large chunk of your safety margin, not in that it means something bad is about to happen is all I'm saying.
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  5. Better than loosing the engine over the ocean halfway to Hawaii.
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