Total Engine Failure in Emergency Landing: Badge Guide

Total Engine Failure is the worst case in Emergency Landing’s engine family: a complete loss of the propulsion system rather than a single failed engine. It has 1,220,928 awards and a 24.2% win rate, which makes it more common than several milder emergencies.

Total Engine Failure badge data

What is total engine failure in aviation?

Losing every engine turns an airliner into a glider. The crew has to establish a glide speed, find a landing site within gliding distance, and manage the systems that still work. Two of the most studied cases are Air Canada 143 in 1983, which ran out of fuel and glided to an abandoned runway at Gimli, and US Airways 1549 in 2009, which lost both engines to bird strikes and ditched in the Hudson River.

How does it appear in Emergency Landing?

The description reads “Experience a complete failure of the whole propulsion system!” That wording covers jets and turboprops alike, so the badge is not limited to any one aircraft. It sits alongside Engine Failure, which covers a single engine, and Uncontained Engine Failure, which describes how the engine failed rather than how many did.

The relatively high award count suggests the game hands this out more readily than real-world statistics would imply — it is a set piece, not a rarity filter.

Related emergency badges

If you are working through the engine badges, note that Fuel Exhaustion can end in a total loss of power without any mechanical failure at all. The badge data cannot tell you which cause produced which award, so treat these as parallel paths rather than a sequence.

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.