HOW COMMON IS IF FOR A PLANE TO LOSE POWER IN ALL ENGINES?
Very uncommon. This might happen, somewhere in the world, no more often than once every 5 to 10 years. LOSING POWER IN SOME BUT NOT ALL ENGINES: This sometimes happens, and chances are you’ll probably never even know that it has occurred, but for sure the pilots on the flight deck are very aware of such a situation. If they can’t restart the engine and assure themselves that the problem is resolved, they’ll immediately divert the plane and land it at a nearby airport. LOSING POWER IN ALL ENGINES: Don’t panic. Statistically, its extremely rare that this will actually happen, and even if it did, you would have a very good chance of surviving such a situation. If a plane loses all power, it does not then just fall out of the sky. Instead, it becomes a very big and rather clumsy glider, but it still will have an amazing controllability, although not quite as readily as with the engines. It can still maneuver left and right, and can also vary its rate of descent, but it can no longer ascend
