Comment by rob74
2 hours ago
It was however relevant to the survivability of the accident: if the left engine wouldn't have detached, or would have detached in a more "manageable" way, the other engine (probably the tail engine from how it looks) wouldn't have been affected too, and the pilots would have had a better chance to take off. Plus the whole "when an engine detaches, it shouldn't start a fire in the wing it was attached to" part of course...
Yes, agreed, the secondary safety wasn't there either. There was a Boeing accident near Amsterdam with the plane crashing into an inhabited area, it had dropped two engines but kept flying, at least for a while...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Al_Flight_1862
Pictures of that accident are not for the faint of heart so think twice before clicking.