Very sobering indeed.
I would be very interested to read Appendix 3 to see how many hundreds of others would have ended up in the same position, albeit in the sim.
Goes to show just how few holes there are in the Swiss cheese to line up these days... courtesy of the beancounters.
'The only time you have too much fuel is when you are on fire' was one of the first rules of flight planning ...back in the days when flight crew had complete control of the safe operation of an a/c.
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