Originally Posted by
chevvron
I was told years ago that every time a Convair 880 took off from Heathrow using water, they had to start taking RVR readings.
It would be good to know which operator of the 880 into Heathrow you are thinking of ...
Originally Posted by
oldchina
The Paninternational 1-11 was doomed because it only had one water tank feeding two engines. I suppose if the 1-11 had two tanks the idiot would have still have put kerosene in both, but I thought it a strange design even so.
I don't believe it was whoever filled the tank was an idiot, but the one who, sometime beforehand, who had refilled demin-labelled water barrels with fuel, and then put them back on the line.