Who said anything about throwing a blade? It might have been something as
mundane as failure of the instrumentation.

Mike
MU-2

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:47:17 GMT, "OtisWinslow"
wrote in
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I was on an airliner once coming out of Florida that had a gear problem

I see a "gear problem" as being in a completely different class from
an engine that may have thrown turbine blades through vital systems
and structure.