I have chosen the easy way and went from too many every day to no alcohol at all. It’s been around a year now and I am going to double that number.

Kudos to you, setting limits feels way harder than getting to zero as, to me, zero means not thinking about it at all.

If you managed to keep those rules for 3 years that’s a good job, it needs a lot of will to not use any downside of life to break the rule.

Just to be specific as you received tons of answers already.

Yes a modern bi-jet aircraft can takeoff with only one engine (think A320, B7** etc). Provided that there isn’t any other huge issue affecting the performance or the airframe (like a wing on fire).

This MD11 was a tri-jet from another era and it seems that it lost 2 engines out of 3.

And no there are no backup engines, that would be dead weight and engines are very heavy.

That backup is the other engine, their reliability and the fact that an aircraft can still fly without engines (if at altitude of course) and glide to an airport for an emergency landing.

Please only use aeronautical sources for aeronautical stuff: https://avherald.com/h?article=52f5748f&opt=0

Mainstream media doesn’t know shit about airplanes, ATC or meteorology and they often over simplify the facts sometimes making them wrong (like calling every ATC unit a “tower”).

But yeah apparently engine 1 (left) went away during the takeoff roll, for unknown reasons. Engine 2 (middle one on the tail) seemed to have stalled, probably because of the high pitch up attitude disrupting the airflow to the engine.

If all is true then yeah, a MTOW (maximum takeoff weight) MD11 wouldn’t fly with only one engine, and it didn’t.

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