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Re: Way OT : Any maths bods around?




Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) wrote:

> 1 in 10,000  ?  (100,000 MTBF / 10 hrs)
>
> It's probably more complicated than that, e.g. what happens if it's
> already flown for 99,989 hrs and you're flight is the last 10 before
> it's service ? I guess they're serviced at 50% of their quoted MTBF
> though and a 747 can still fly with one engine lost ?


They can fly with total engine failure.

Just not for very long :-)

Jim



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