How many kilometers can a plane fly if all its engines stop working

Situations when all three or four aircraft engines fail at once during a flight occur

infrequently. But it still happens. And this is how long the plane can hold out in this case. Discuss

To date, 80% of aircraft malfunctions,that occur during the flight are associated with the human factor. Although it is rare for an engine to fail en route, such situations still occur. For example, when a liner collides with a flock of birds. In this case, the pilots have only one way out: to land at the airport located nearby, or somewhere near it. For example, this happened in 2019 with the Airbus A321, which, due to the fact that it collided with seagulls, landed in a cornfield near the airport called Zhukovsky.

What happens if the engines suddenly stopwork away from the airport and at high altitude? In this case, it all depends on the choice of pilots. They can either maintain speed but lose altitude, or lose speed while at the same altitude.

If the pilots decide to slow down, theyyou have to watch the height. And the distance that the liner will cover in this case depends on the flight altitude, weather, and aerodynamic quality. On average, commercial aircraft fly at an altitude of about 10 km, so in the absence of wind they are able to fly about 150-200 km before touching the ground.