Originally Posted by
605carsten
Nah… quick quick turn in Columbus, respectfully I would seriously look at their fuel numbers for an out and back.
(12 years on 604/605 myself)
edit to add, I dont want to read too much into the flames.. remember there is always an amount of unusable fuel that remains so hard to say at this point
If the fuel were dangerously low, would the deceleration upon the approach, the turn, banking, flaps, wheels down, etc cause the fuel to slosh forward and away from the fuel pickups? This to explain the sudden loss of both engines. Perhaps the crew terribly calculated the fuel load due to few passengers and the reserve was miscalculated as a result. But then why would they ignore fuel warnings and land at any one of the 100's of Florida Alternates??