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Old 22nd Mar 2019, 21:20
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If lack of fuel in the wings causes them to break off, how did the Gimli glider or the Air Transat planes that ran out of gas in the air land successfully? And does this mean that Avianca at JFK really crashed from the wings snapping off and not from fuel exhaustion?
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