AT CRUISE ON BOARD MD80S ACFT ENG SHUT DOWN DUE TO MECHANICAL PROB. ACFT DIVERTED TO ALTERNATE FOR MAINT. ACFT LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT.

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ON AUG/XA/98 I WAS #3 FLT ATTENDANT WORKING FLT ORD-BOS. DURING THE BEVERAGE SVC IN MAIN CABIN; THE LIGHTS ON THE ACFT WENT ON AND OFF TWICE. MOMENTS LATER; THE #1 FLT ATTENDANT WAS CALLED TO COCKPIT AND INFORMED WE HAD LOST AN ENG; AND PREPARE THE CABIN FOR IMMEDIATE LNDG; DIVERTING TO ALB. #1 FLT ATTENDANT ASKED IF THERE WAS NEED TO BRIEF PAX FOR EMER LNDG AND CAPT INFORMED #1 FLT ATTENDANT HE WOULD KEEP HIM INFORMED. CAPT PROCEEDED WITH NORMAL LNDG INTO ALB ARPT. WE DID HAVE A NORMAL APCH AS WELL AS LNDG. BOTH #1 FLT ATTENDANT AND MYSELF HAD TOTAL CONFIDENCE AS TO WHAT TO DO IN CASE OF AN EMER; SINCE WE HAD ONLY GRADUATED FROM TRAINING WKS BEFORE. AS WE WERE PARKED AT THE GATE; THE LIGHTS AGAIN WENT TOTALLY BLACK FOR ABOUT 1 MIN; MAYBE LESS. THE PAX WERE COMPLETELY CALM AND COMPLIED WITH ALL INSTRUCTIONS; INCLUDING DEPLANING FROM AFT TAILCONE AIRSTAIRS. THE FO WAS AT BOTTOM OF AIRSTAIRS DIRECTING PAX TO ANOTHER ACFT ACROSS THE TARMAC TO ANOTHER GATE; WHICH THE PAX ALSO BOARDED THE SECOND ACFT FROM THE AFT AIRSTAIRS. FLT ATTENDANTS #2 AND #4 HAD EXITED FIRST TO BOARD THE SECOND ACFT BEFORE PAX. FLT ATTENDANTS #1; #3; AND MYSELF BOARDED AS SOON AS ALL PAX DEPLANED. WE BOARDED SECOND ACFT FROM JETBRIDGE TO BOARD FROM FORWARD GALLEY AREA AND FIRST CLASS CABIN. BOARDING WAS LONG; BUT UNEVENTFUL. MOST PAX WERE TIRED BUT COMPLACENT. OUR NORMAL LNDG AND DEPLANING IN BOSTON WAS ORGANIZED AND UNEVENTFUL; AND MOST ALL PAX THANKED US PERSONALLY FOR OUR PROFESSIONALISM. SUPPLEMENTAL INFO FROM ACN 412660: GATE AGENT WAS ON AND TOLD PAX AHEAD OF TIME WE WOULD DEPLANE OUT OF TAILCONE STAIRS.