Originally Posted by
AircraftOperations
Needed most of the PIK runway, or chose to use most of it? Big difference. Unlikely it was fully fuelled from EDI or at MTOW anyway.The aircraft only had an engine shutdown, it wasn't on fire. So, in the event of PIK not being available, the crew would reasonably have had time to stay airborne to select a suitable landing runway or even would have been justified to firstly lose some fuel weight nearby if they thought they'd be tight in stopping at EDI or even GLA.
Thank you I appreciate your expertise. The pax video clearly showed flames coming from somewhere under the wing. In those circumstances I wondered about the practicality
of dumping fuel.