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Dependable. one instance where a 777 took off from new zealand, lost one engine on the way to los angeles, and had to make a diversion to hawaii. on one engine. it's a large plane flying on one engine. it was designed to do that, and it flew for 90 minutes on that one engine and landed safely. of course, the background to this is that before that, large planes of that kind had either four engines, like a jumbo, or three engines, so that if one went out two were left, or three left in the case of the 747, able to lose two engines and still make it back to land. so boeing led the whole aviation ...