Comment by foldr
8 hours ago
This is understating it. Any minimally competent crew should be able to handle a single engine failure on takeoff (in a normal scenario, not this one). It’s absolutely within the performance envelope of the aircraft and is something that crew train for. If pilots were not routinely able to handle this kind of failure, we’d see a lot more crashes.
The pilots did (apparently) exceptionally well keeping the plane level even with unbalanced weight and nearly no thrust; perhaps they had been over water they’d even have been able to ditch successfully.
This is still understating it. Any barely competent crew should be able to handle a single engine failure on takeoff (in a normal scenario, not this one).