If you ever saw the strange movie "Donnie Darko", you really wouldn't want a GE90 to land on your bed while you're sleeping...though I guess you'd never know it. But yeah, if it's a choice between losing an engine or losing the aircraft, it makes sense to have breakaway engine mounts. They do it for military aircraft...in fact a B-52 lost an engine pod a few years ago out here, it landed on some rural church...nobody got hurt.
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