From kls Tue Nov 23 00:02:46 1993 Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: bounce-back From: joe@montebello.soest.hawaii.edu (Joe Dellinger) Subject: Re: 2 engines vs 4 engines planes References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Reply-To: joe@montebello.soest.hawaii.edu Organization: School of Ocean and Earth Science Technology Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Date: 23 Nov 93 00:02:46 PST Early on in flights between Hawaii and the mainland, wasn't there a Pan Am plane that had engine trouble and couldn't make it to land, so it arranged to "land" in the Pacific Ocean near a waiting Coast Guard rescue ship? /\ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________ / \ / \ /Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, Honolulu\/\/\.-.-....__ ___/ \/ \/Joe Dellinger, Internet: joe@montebello.soest.hawaii.edu\/\.-.__