Aircraft Engine Failure over Denver.

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Originally Posted by KWIL

I did however also say the shear pins relieve the bolts of any shear force.

My understanding is that the engine-to-wing supporting structure is designed to release the engine when extreme forces are applied to prevent any structural damage to the wing that may impair the aircraft's ability to fly.

Originally Posted by torque2me

Item 3 - Personally I would think so but again it is an objective thing for each person.

We might be talking about different aircraft incidents. I'm not aware of the Quantas incident you mentioned, it may or may not have involved a GE engine, but that make of engine was not fitted to the subject aircraft of this thread nor was it fitted to the 747 incident that I linked to. Both were Pratt & Whitney engine failures.