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> redundancy comes from multiple independent fuel tanks.

And in larger aircraft, multiple independent engines. See for instance ETOPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

From the pictures, I see that this new aircraft has 4 engines. So it should be adequately resilient to single engine failure.



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