[Info-vax] OT: Aircraft pitot tubes and clustering.

[Tom Wade]

>    Why not two engines?  Light twins are the most dangerous airplanes
>    in the sky, they're very hard to operate on one engine and the accident
>    rate while trying to continue on one engine is very high.  

I remember asking a pilot friend, who had a single engine plane whether he considered a twin to be 
safer.  His reply was that "the second engine only takes you to the scene of the accident".