"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
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Sounds like fuel exhaustion to me.

I welcome suggestions on how I could have stated it more clearly.

Sorry, can't help you there. The screw up was mine.

Packing ice/ash/... into the _air_ intake has little to do with the
fuel supply. (Again, I think I was not clear.)

I don't consider that a "failure" any more than I consider flying into the
side of a mountain a structural failure. Particulates dense enough to shut
down an engine are dense enough that the pilot had no business flying into
them in the first place (or was unfortunate enough to be overtaken by a
cloud).

In any case, the incidence of those failures is extremely low,

Great. I don't need to worry about all of those stories I heard of
getting JetA in an airplane marked "Turbo." Thanks.

I'd hazard a guess that you don't. I've owned my turbocharged aircraft for
nearly ten years now, and have NEVER had any sort of confusion regarding
what kind of fuel it takes. The filler holes are clearly marked 100LL, I
supervise all fueling, and in any case, *real* turbine aircraft don't have
"turbo" written on the side.

I've heard those same stories, but have never seen any evidence that they
were anything more than apocryphal. I can believe it might have happened
once or twice, but it hardly sounds like something that happens often enough
to skew engine failure statistics, especially when one is only considering
in-flight engine failures.

Agreed. I don't think anyone pretends the tradeoff doesn't exist.
Some do pretend that it is a linear relationship thus ignoring what
you describe as the most popular failures (along with the others
that I listed).

Well, even ignoring the factors you've mentioned, it's not actually a linear
relationship. It's just *nearly* linear, near enough that the
generalization is reasonably true. The other factors that you've mentioned
don't really change that relationship, IMHO. It's still *nearly* true, just
as it is without considering them.

Bottom line: the more stuff you have, the more likely something will go
wrong with some of your stuff.

Pete