BoeingBoy
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As I said, a string of errors led to running out of fuel and the number of engines had nothing to do with it. In fact, I guess it could be argued in the Air Transat case that they had one too many engines - the one that developed the leak should have been taken off and left behind which would have prevented the fuel leak with led to running out of fuel...Human error, be it by design (Airbus) or by action (Air Transat maintenance technicians) caused the engines to shut down.
The original premise, which was the subject of FWAAA's reply, was that four engines were better over "difficult terrain" - if one quits there are more still operating if the plane has 4 instead of 2. The Air Transat accident doesn't have anything to do with that premise. When a plane runs out of fuel the engines stop no matter how many engines there are.
Jim