Originally Posted by
haughtney1
however, based on the story as published there is no way I would be moving the aircraft until I was satisfied.
Well, the crew had a "correct" (but erroneous) fuel quantity indication on their cockpit gauges, which agreed with the engineer's tank sticking results, and a plausible explanation for the uplift quantity discrepancy (Counter was not reset) which was incorrect, but not obviously so. I think a whole bunch of pretty diligent aircrew would be "satisfied" by this trap.