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Old 29th Jul 2022, 17:44
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Originally Posted by 7p3i7lot
I think there was a 767 incident years ago crossing where the crew mishandled a fuel inbalance actually caused by an engine fuel leak.
Maybe someone could dig that incident up in the pprune records to jog our memories.
Pretty sure what you're thinking of was an A330 - fuel was leaking from a heat exchanger IIRC. They shut down the engine, but on the A330 that doesn't close the spar valve and they continued to lose fuel and ended up doing a dead stick landing in the Azores.
767 closes the spar valve when you do a normal shutdown so wouldn't have that issue.
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