Here’s a pop quiz! Name three differences between an airplane and your car. If one of your answers was "I don't fall ten thousand feet when I run out of gas," you and I clearly think alike. But really, planes are pretty good at staying up in the air when an engine goes down.

That might seem strange at first; you wouldn't turn off your car while driving, after all, but there are a lot of reasons pilots might need to shut the engines down while still in the air. One of the most common causes is that something got into the engine’s air intake.

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