Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
Regardless of an EAT you may not hang around your destination below minimum diversion fuel. You have to divert. They didn't. That seems a very serious situation to me.
That's not correct. You can use your diversion fuel to stay at your current destination if that's the best option.
The question will be whether they declared Min Fuel and then a MayDay when it looked like they were going to land below final reserve.
I don't want to question their decision making, I wasn't there, but did they follow procedure?