"cjcampbell" wrote in message
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Barney Rubble wrote:
Yes it is, if you go back to the original question posed by the OP, he
was
asking about the root cause of accidents. It is a fact (links at the end)
that Jet/turbine and piston engines have different MTFB's Of course it is
not the only factor in an accident, but engine failure is a fairly
serious
matter and not normally something a pilot can do much about (assuming he
is
operating the equipment by the book).

http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309069831/html/60.html
To paraphrase the report:-
The in-flight shutdown (IFSD) rate, a measure of reliability, for gas
turbine engines in large commercial aircraft is 0.5 shutdowns for every
105
hours of flight. For single-engine military jet aircraft, the IFSD rate
is 2
for every 105 hours. The IFSD rate for light aircraft piston engines is
considerably worse, about 5 to 10 for every 105 hours.

These "statistics" are obviously bogus and simply pulled out of thin
air.


No he just doesn't know how to read numbers it wasn't 105 hours it was 10^5
hours or 100,000 hours. I have no desire to read the whole report but it is
a 2000 report titled, "Uninhabited Air Vehicles: Enabling Science for
Military Systems."