So an aircraft that will land with e.g. 29 minutes of reserve fuel rather than 30 minutes of required final reserve fuel is “threatened with grave and imminent danger and requires immediate assistance”? So typical that the aviation regulatory regime turns words into something they don’t mean.
I wonder what “immediate assistance” would be provided in the example I gave, to remove the “threatened grave and imminent danger”. Will aircraft be diverted so that the one “threatened” can land with 30 minutes rather than 29 of reserve? Will RFFS be dispatched and standing by if the aircraft will land with 29 minutes of reserve, but won’t be standing by if the aircraft will land with 30 minutes of reserve?
To quote the Spodman once again: May Jesus pee in a bucket, what are these wombats on?