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If a given plane has four engines, they are all used and needed to carry out a normal flight. It is absolutely uncommon to shut down engines inflight.

On the ground at taxi-in or taxi-out, one or two engines can be shut down to save some fuel.

A four engined aircraft can actually fly on only two engines in some cases (though only if the other engines have failed)

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