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- NATION, Page 31American NotesAVIATIONTwo Engines Are Better
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- Airlines routinely lose baggage, and one airplane in flight
- last year even lost some of its skin. In the sky near Chicago's
- O'Hare International Airport last week, a Boeing 737 lost
- something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments
- after takeoff, the jet's right engine somehow tore free from
- the wing at about 1,000 ft. and plummeted to a field below. The
- plane landed safely back at O'Hare, and all 32 people aboard
- Piedmont Flight 1480, bound for Charlotte, N.C., escaped
- injury. Smoke was "coming out of one engine," said a passenger.
- "We saw it leaning, almost falling off, and then it fell off."
- Neither Piedmont nor Federal Aviation Administration officials
- were prepared to offer an explanation last week for what caused
- the engine to fall.
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