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Difference. landing a plane on one engine is the single most practiced act of captains and first officers. they do it in their training, they do it in their type rating, they do it in their six monthly sim checks. losing an engine on takeoff and having to do a go around and come back again is one of those things that's well practiced. and also modern day aircraft, the 320 series as indeed the 73 series is built with avionics that help the pilots in those situations. >> a bit scary. both engines lose cowlings. >> every time i talk to you on one of these things i suddenly get flamed by everybody...

Forth that they might not have begun their journey with a full tank of fuel. >> miles, let me jump back in, this is brooke. you know, given this sort of jet, do we have any idea what kind of training a pilot or pilots on board this kind of lear jet 45 might have for scenarios like this one? >> well, you know this is the kind of -- these are the kinds of things you do train for in simulators. you obviously don't want do this in the real world except when you have to, right? so -- but as part of recurrent training for a flight crew that is involved in flying these for charter and so forth, there...