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dullgiulio on Jan 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Lan...

Why "still"? Even if the chances of a failure of both engines is almost zero, it has happened that there are losses of fuel. The ram-air turbine allows the pilots to have some instrumentation. That's super useful, for example in this accident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236

inferiorhuman on Jan 30, 2019 | [–]

> The ram-air turbine allows the pilots to have some instrumentation.

Ideally, yes. I submitted a recent incident where the RAT deployed on a 777 because it's so unusual (and was also not due to lack of fuel):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19039978

SomeHacker44 on Jan 31, 2019 | [–]

“Still” because if you read the parent to my reply he uses that term in his query.

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