Mr. SABATINI: Pilots can go through an entire career and never experience an engine failure.
The Finn inherited eight place when Takuma Sato's BAR-Honda retired with engine failure with four laps to go.
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In August 2001, a Canadian airliner operated by Air Transat experienced double engine failure while traveling to Portugal.
Nakajima's team-mate Nico Rosberg was ahead of the Japanese when he retired with an engine failure on lap 42.
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And Raikkonen took the final point in eighth place despite retiring with engine failure five laps from the end.
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Three times in the past three weeks, and once in November, engine failure forced pilots to land at the nearest airport.
Vettel's second fastest lap was in sharp contrast to Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber's performance, with the Australian's car suffering suspected engine failure.
Earlier, the RIA-Novosti news agency, quoting a source in the inquiry, said investigators were looking at engine failure as a possible cause of the crash.
In May, the same aircraft had to make two unscheduled air returns following reports of engine failure, according to a Dana Air station manager in Lagos.
Coulthard's McLaren team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who started from the back of the grid following an engine failure in qualifying, scored his first point of the season.
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Tom Vautier, after overcoming engine failure, finished 19th, 17th and 20th, but had the satisfaction of beating the editor of Superbike magazine in the Rookie 600 event.
Vettel, who retired with an engine failure, has slipped to fourth place 25 points adrift of Button with a maximum of 60 points available from the remaining six races.
The investigation found that the autorotation training the pilot received was not representative of an actual engine failure at cruise speed, which likely contributed to his failure to successfully execute the maneuver.
It was the first loss of a Progress freighter in more than 30 years of operation, according to the report, which said the cause was believed to be a rocket engine failure.
Toro Rosso's Sebastien Bourdais was classified seventh on an impressive debut following Barrichello's exclusion, despite retiring with engine failure while running fourth ahead of Alonso and Kovalainen with three laps to go.
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Mrs Jones' crew was sent out on 24 August 2004 when the fishing vessel Gower Pride suffered engine failure in rough seas, with the skipper and an injured fisherman on board near the Nash sandbanks off Porthcawl.
The day ended early for BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica, who appeared to suffer an engine failure as he accelerated out of the hairpin at Turn Seven - sending thick white smoke into the Abu Dhabi night sky.
SpaceX was quick to make the point that the ability to carry on despite an engine failure demonstrates a big advantage of multi-engined rockets like the Falcon (Space Shuttles and Saturn V moon rockets could both do something similar).
The executive has a point when there's more than 40 booked SpaceX flights so early into the Falcon program's history, although there's something left to prove when the first scheduled Dragon capsule launch ran into a non-critical engine failure.
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Past incidents of aircraft trying to fly through volcanic ash clouds and suffering damage and engine failure led European officials to shut their air spaces rather than risk a catastrophe, said Joe Sultana, an official at Eurocontrol, the intergovernmental body that manages European air travel.
He's also experienced an engine-part failure that a mechanic blamed on ethanol, but he said he's sure there were other issues that caused the shutdown.
In the case of the Splendor, the heat generated by the fire damaged two engine control switchboards directly above and melted electrical cabling, causing a total loss of electrical power on board and the failure of the forward engine room.
In any case, the failure of one engine would be unlikely of itself to cause a crash, as a modern jet could keep flying with its second engine alone.
As for the other incidents that have beset the type over the past few months -- a fan shaft failure on an engine, an oil leak, a windshield crack -- all can safely be put down to teething problems.
But it was the engine on the left side which had suffered failure.
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