I believe the a/c concerned was a A310 from the national airline of the land of "lah"
Then there was the story about one of their 744's doing something similiar, and the one about the 340 where, in an attempt to balance fuel the FO (obviously straight out of the airline trng college in Adelaide) turned off the hydraulics.......which I understand are now a guarded switch whence prior they were not (as I have never flown a bus perhaps someone could elaborate how this can be done get into their subsequent"pickle")
For those lost geographically, the "Land of LAH" sits on the equator and used to be run by the former "minister for everything"..........very unsavoury place