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Why does an airplane crash if the engine fail?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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An airplane will crash if the engine fails because the engine pulls the wing forward (and the plane) and the wing creates lift when it is moving forward, so it goes up. If there is no lift, the plane obeys the law of gravity and crashes.

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