Comment by biggieshellz

FWIW, it takes way more than 1 second for the engines to spool up. And an engine not producing sufficient thrust would not doom the plane -- as long as the airplane makes it to V1 (decision speed), it should be able to fly with a single engine failure after that point. And the pilots should already have talked through the takeoff and come up with a go / no-go based on distance: "if we're after this point and we haven't reached V1, we'll abort".