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Squawk7777
Reminds me of the Hapag Lloyd flight that continued the flight with one main down. I believe the skipper lost his licence over this right before his retirement.
He was actually convicted of a crime:
Court says A310 captain "endangered lives" by ignoring low-fuel warnings three years ago
The captain of a Hapag-Lloyd Airbus A310-300 that ran out of fuel just short of the runway at Vienna airport three years ago, has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence by a Hanover, Germany court for "endangering others' lives".Capt Wolfgang Arminger had voluntarily left his job at the German charter airline around six months after the accident. The court said he had ignored low-fuel warnings that began while he was over the Balkans when he was operating a flight on 12 July 2000 from Chania, Crete, to Hanover. The A310's landing gear would not retract after take-off from Chania, but the captain elected to continue to the destination, and the court criticised him for failing to take the option of diverting to a nearer airport such as Zagreb.
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