Engine Failure in Emergency Landing: Badge & Meaning

Engine Failure is the broadest engine badge in Emergency Landing and one of the most-awarded emergencies in the game, with over a million awards. It covers the loss of a single engine in flight or during takeoff, which is the case flight crews train for most often.

Engine Failure badge data

What is engine failure in aviation?

An engine failure means one engine has stopped producing thrust or has failed structurally. On a twin-engine airliner the remaining engine is usually enough to fly and land, which is why the failure is serious but rarely catastrophic on its own. Crews practise the aftermath in simulators constantly: identify the failed engine, secure it, manage the asymmetric thrust, and plan a diversion or an immediate return.

How does it appear in Emergency Landing?

The badge description is deliberately plain: “Experience the failure of an engine in-flight or while taking off!” It does not name a cause, which is why the engine family in Emergency Landing is so large. A flameout, a compressor stall, an uncontained failure and a total loss of all engines are all tracked as separate badges, so Engine Failure is best read as the generic single-engine case.

Because the badge can trigger on the takeoff roll as well as in cruise, it is one of the easier engine badges to run into without trying.

Related emergency badges

The engine family is the densest cluster in the emergency set. The distinctions matter: a compressor stall is an airflow problem, a flameout is a combustion problem, an uncontained failure means debris has left the engine, and a pylon failure means the engine has separated from the airframe. Engine Failure is the one badge that can plausibly describe the start of several of them.

Where to read next

• All 93 emergency badges for the full list with award counts.
• All 238 badges for the complete badge set.
• Milestone badges for the survival and death ladders these events feed.