How can modern aircraft fly on just one engine if the other one fails? Shouldn’t the torque produced by the functioning engine make the aircraft yaw?

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How can modern aircraft fly on just one engine if the other one fails? Shouldn’t the torque produced by the functioning engine make the aircraft yaw?

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“Shouldn’t the torque produced by the functioning engine make the aircraft yaw”

It does, in fact one of checklist items to do if an engine fails is to trim the rudder by an angle that the aircraft flies straight

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