In the 1954 movie The High and the Mighty, a calm and courageous John Wayne pilots a propeller-driven DC-4 airliner to a safe landing in San Francisco even though two of the plane's four engines have stopped working. Aircraft experts say the chance that two engines would independently break down on one of today's jetliners is only one in a billion hours of flight. For that reason, the Federal Aviation Administration arrived at a preliminary proposal last week that would allow commercial jets with only two engines to make most transatlantic flights. As of now,...
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