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Why can an MD-11F lose an engine on takeoff?

The MD-11’s three engines were meant to make “one engine out” a manageable problem; an engine leaving the airplane is ...
The most consequential mechanical failures in transport aviation are often the ones which start as hairline cracks hidden ...
(CNN) — A critical mount that kept the left engine attached to the UPS flight that crashed in Louisville earlier this month failed only moments after the doomed flight broke ground, according to a new ...
Federal investigators released dramatic photos Thursday of an engine flying off a doomed UPS cargo plane that crashed two weeks ago in Kentucky, killing 14 people, and said there was evidence of ...
The left and right engines of the plane are attached to the underside of pylons that are attached to each wing. Investigators are still gathering more information The cockpit voice recorders and the ...