re: Pilot of Southwest flight with blown engine was one of Navy's first female fighter pilots

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bullshite. I don't know anything about flying a plane, except that I don't want to. But most any moron knows that an engine blowing up and a window breaking changes aerodynamics.

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Well you clearly know far less about how planes fly than I do.

A blown up engine is not going to 'change aerodynamics' in such a way that'll it will affect the performance of the plane in and of itself. Now if it blows up and the wing falls off that's obviously a different story, but that's not what we're talking about. Look at the weather and wind that airplanes fly through on a regular basis. You think a slightly warped engine manifold is going to impact flight more than wind gusts seen on a regular basis?